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Writing this on my iPad so excuse my spelling errors:

There is so much evil in this world, what the Rohingya face today my own people endured in 2009. At the hands of thr Sri Lankan government, who also happens to be buddhistic, ten thousands of innocent Tamils were massacred. Women and children raped. Babies murdered.

The UN wrote a huge report findng the Sri Lankan government guilty only for China and Russia to veto against any juridicial proceeding.

One of the reason i am so dissapointed in Trump, he doesnt seem to understand when good retreats, evil will triump. Not everything in this world is about fair transaction of money for goods and service. When the oppressed in 3rd world countries look for justice, they look for strong powers of democracy, they look upto US.

Throughout history US would come to aid, today its about bowing down to communist human rights abusers like China for fair trade and access to its market.

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Unfortunately, most Americans don't understand that people may perceive them and our government this way.

To be honest with you, at least in my memory of news coverage from the 90s until the war ended, there was very little if any notice of your civil war or the plight of the people. The most attention Sri Lankans might have gotten from average Americans were either post-tsunami (even then, more focused on Thailand and Indonesia) or when MIA broke onto the music scene (a very small demographic).

I've been to parts of the world where 'USA' was used as graffiti and people loved us because of what we had done for them but the average American would be hard-pressed to identify what we saved them from, if even the where the country is.

There are massive arguments for isolationism once more in the country, and ceding both soft and hard power to other countries. Many people don't understand the good we have done in the world, as well as the bad.

You are definitely barking up the wrong tree if you think the current administration would have any interest but their own at heart.

> Throughout history US would come to aid, today its about bowing down to communist human rights abusers like China for fair trade and access to its market.

I'm not sure this is an accurate assessment of US foreign policy in any period. I'm sort of scratching my head to think of any significant US interventions that weren't self-serving. Beyond the original Manifest Destiny expansionism, there's a rich tradition of US fillibusterism[1], gunboat diplomacy, proxy wars, banana dictators, coups, support of the drug trade, the list goes on, and on, and on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_(military)

It's unfortunate that you hope a lot from the US establishment. In the past, the US has supported rogue regimes like Pakistan and Khmer rouge, who had actively commited genocide. Don't get me wrong. I am not a US hatemonger. I admire the US for liberating the world from the worst tyrant in human history. However, in modern times unless your region is identified as "strategic", I don't think you are going to get any help from them. I would say, your best bet is the EU.

> Throughout history US would come to aid, today its about bowing down to communist human rights abusers like China for fair trade and access to its market.

Unfortunately, US role in Bangladesh(East Pakistan)[1], Vietnam and South America shows they do it so only if political/economic reasons align.

[1] http://warisboring.com/in-1971-the-u-s-navy-almost-fought-th...

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