The United States has a moral obligation to mitigate international conflicts.

"And if the US had just lifted the sanctions on Iraq, as you and many others wished, I'm sure that Saddam would have never ever dreamed of doing another Halabja, right?" Colin Powell, United States Secretary of State, said this sarcastically. Halabja is an Iraqi city in which the Iraqi regime committed its most horrible crime against civilians on the 17th of March 1988. This city, along with numerous others were bombarded by warplanes carrying chemical …

…Kurtz of the University of British Columbia has a PhD in humanities. Our third contention states "The U.S. enforces international peace by not tolerating the violations of country's rights" Any concern seen as a U.S. interest is going to affect the rest of the world. As the world's only superpower, the U.S. will either affect or be affected by global questions, and thus, national concerns for the U.S. become global concerns.