Question

What are circumstances in which US intervention can be helpful , and what are some circumstances in which it can be ineffective or even destructive ?

Answer 1

It can be helpful when:

• The intervention occurs with a humanitarian purpose, as in a country that just had a couple of its cities wasted by a natural disaster, like a tsunami or tornado.
• Or in a country which its population has been suffering from hunger for decades due to political crises or coups

It can be ineffective or even destructive when:

• It's a military extreme intervention on a city or country that although on war, it's still very populated by civilians. Like it was in the War on Terror campaign, started by the US after the 9/11 terrorist assault, with American invasion on Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and others. It ended up being effective, with even the fall of Al-Qaeda's terrorist organization leader in 2011, but in the process several cases of violent acts against and deaths of civilians were reported.