[whydoibother]

> 4,000 troops to Syria to fight against Israel in the Yom Kippur war

Supporting Arabs retaliating against an illegal land grab by Israel.

>They also probably didn't send troops into Somalia

Helping Ethiopia defend itself against aggression from Somalia, the issue of which was caused by western meddling and colonialism.

>nor support the MIR and FPMR to destabilize Chile.

Supporting forces revolting against the horrible Pinochet dictatorship.

Really, why list any of this when we are talking about unwanted CIA intervention, which usually backed murderous right wingers? Cuba's interventions were at least battling western imperialism and had the support of part of the local populations and not just the rich land owners.

[cholantesh]

Most of HN's userbase will offer the same asinine responses to questions like that:

"because western imperialism/protecting the interests of rich land owners is good",

"because the alternative is worse, just trust me bro", or

"because the local population doesn't know what's good for them and/or are/were brainwashed"