That’s a good question but I’d guess mainly because minor traffic infraction fines have become a necessary budget requirement for most counties and cities. Red light running, cameras, and the resulting fines/court cases is simply rational economic policy for the decision makers at the county and city level.

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It’s beyond a given that there’s plans/orders already in place for commanders to cover what the immediate response/action would be.

Actually the US mostly missed out on colonialism because it was busy being being colonized by assorted powers during that period of history. It would make more sense to say “the USA wouldn’t even exist in it’s current form if it wasn’t colonized by Europeans and later mass populated by boat loads of immigrants from…

Look at the list and discussion of that by the International Syria Support Group (ISSG): the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the Arab League all have representation in the body.

Nuclear, biological, and chemical deterrence in the case of NK:

I don’t think the US actually has too much influence on what Assad will do outside of having helped pressure Assad to get rid of their chemical stockpiles before they were captured in any sort of quantity by jihadists.

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But here’s the thing: It’s the fighting/civil war/power vacuum in Syria that has to be ended in order to largely stop foreign jihadist parasites like AQ, ISIS, etc from setting up profitable pseudo-states. Assad being evil or not is a straw-man argument both ways, as is “democracy” - what’s relevant is that Assad…