c - ditto. The United States has never maintained an ideologically consistent policy about anything.
e - is also, unfortunately, not true yet either. UN peacekkeping forces do sometimes help prevent fighting after truces, but not when the United States is fighting.
d - not generally true. NATO has had no role in, for examples, Darfur, or Palestine, or Somalia, or East Timor, or Sri Lanka, or Northern Ireland.
Which leaves (a) as the best, or least bad anyway, of the five choices. Present conflicts are mostly about whether a place should be independent (e.g. NE Sri Lanka; Chechnya; S Ossetia;), or how to govern a country (e.g. Zimbabwe), rather than about boundaries.
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is simply not true.
c - ditto. The United States has never maintained an ideologically consistent policy about anything.
e - is also, unfortunately, not true yet either. UN peacekkeping forces do sometimes help prevent fighting after truces, but not when the United States is fighting.
d - not generally true. NATO has had no role in, for examples, Darfur, or Palestine, or Somalia, or East Timor, or Sri Lanka, or Northern Ireland.
Which leaves (a) as the best, or least bad anyway, of the five choices. Present conflicts are mostly about whether a place should be independent (e.g. NE Sri Lanka; Chechnya; S Ossetia;), or how to govern a country (e.g. Zimbabwe), rather than about boundaries.