The United States and all other countries should intervene in international conflicts when there are uprising and threats to world peace. The questions “why, when and how” should be done to decide when an intervention is necessary.
The consequences of the last US intervention created resentment, the threat of terror resulted in costly interventions, causing the spent of billion of dollars internally and externally defending and protecting other nations.
There was an increase of wiretapping, surveillance of civilians, intrusive body searches at security points., this turned the US into a national security state.
Rivers were attractive locations for the first civilizations because they provided a steady supply of drinking water and made the land fertile for growing crops. Moreover, goods and people could be transported easily, and the people in these civilizations could fish and hunt the animals that came to drink water.