ends up with the results of climate change and food shortages and epidemics then we can be a true leader of the world in a humanitarian way. Much of our National Guard is already trained for this in our own country. I remember the Iowa National Guard helping during floods. Everyone was in favor of this use of our troops.

from their own country who have slaughtered hundreds of thousands of indigenous citizens, leveled entire villages, killed everyone there, bashing the heads of children against trees, hacking to death others with machetes, mowing them down with guns, or shooting them from US-provided helicopters, etc. before throwing them into wells, sometimes alive, in many cases.

Not to mention the over-generous use of torture techniques taught to them applied to so many people they felt were "incorrect" politically: suspected leftists.

Wildly grotesque behavior, slaughtering an entire plaza of El Salvadoran people was contributed by their military as the people attempted to attend the funeral of Archbishop Romero, who had, himself just been shot through the heart as he gave his last mass, assassinated by a US-School-of-the-Americas sniper.

Hundreds of thousands of Central Americans have been turned into piles of helpless, bleeding flesh in their countries over the last 100 years, and in astonishing intensity during the last 60 years. Our own corporate "news" media worked their asses off to save us the trouble of having to think about it too much.

It's so possible citizens are so afraid of soldiers they'd rather fend for themselves against mere nightmarish "natural" cataclysms. At some point mere volcanoes, hurricanes, etc. run out of resources.

lol

We never send troops anywhere to really help anyone. We are there to maintain US corporate interests...always.

much of the "violence and uncertainty" in Latin America and the
Caribbean is directly attributable to the US Marines. I will NEVER forgive them
for their outrageously thuggish behavior in Haiti - 2003 . .
From NACLA . .
"Less than one month after its opening, the hospital and the university complex it was part of were closed down at gunpoint and occupied by U.S. Marines and the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). The 247 new medical students watched as their classrooms were turned into barracks, their instructors forced to flee from political persecution (due to threats on his life, Dr. Polynice fled to Europe), and much of their material and equipment pillaged to service the capital's private medical clinics."

I'd like to add that when some Haitian people, fleeing the paramilitaries who were slaughtering everyone they believed out of place politically, took to boats to get away, and _{George W. Bush,} in his "wisdom" used the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy to form a barrier, catch them all, and drive them back to shore, to be delivered to that human tree-shredder, peopled in some cases by former Ton-Ton Macoutes from the monster Duvalier dictatorship. Many of those paras had been living safely in the U.S. after the first coup against Aristide, during Bush #41's occupation of the White House, only to return to deliver suffering to suspected Aristide supporters during Bush #43.

Threats on the lives of people working to HELP the suffering masses. So sad to know this has been the pattern so many places against people who aid suspected "leftists." Unbearable. They would have been killed, no doubt about that, had they dared to stay.

So they moved the medical products meant to help the poor over to aid the small wealthy community's quarters. So ugly. So right-wing.

I would be rather apprehensive about the presence of the US military in my country, especially considering the fact that the publicly stated goal of the US foreign policy establishment, is "full spectrum dominance" of all Latin America. Empires are hardly motivated by a compulsion to help local populations. Their motive is usually a desire to control resources and markets. We can clearly see by the conduct of the US government for most of its history, that it is more concerned about hegemony than humanitarianism.

Sometimes they just stick us where they don't know what else to do...

to destroy a medical school was following illegal orders, and
violating his/her oath to defend the US constitution.
To take part in deliberately attacking civilian infrastructure
is a violation of the Geneva Conventions which Art. 6, section II
of the US Constitution explicitly states are the "law of the land".
BTW, I have told US Marines that to their faces, and will
continue to do so.