Worldwide Military Involvement Throughout America's history as a superpower, America has asserted its dominance over the world's problems. President Barack Obama once said: "Increasingly, we all face difficult questions about how to prevent the massacre of civilians by their own government, or to end a civil war whose violence and suffering can engulf an entire region” (Intervention by Scott US). Sometimes, achieving total peace requires resorting to violence to bring tranquility to the world. Since the late 1800s, the United States has engaged with or impacted other countries in an effort to improve nations as a whole. Therefore, American involvement is a necessary good that must take place to achieve world peace. has a very complex economic system that involves many countries around the world to keep its balance in balance. In the 1990s, Iraq invaded Kuwait for its oil reserves. America, along with a coalition of many other European countries, set out to remove Saddam Hussein from power. Kuwait has always been a crucial and essential necessity for America. The Middle East's oil reserves helped supply America with large quantities of oil, which lowered the price of gasoline and oil in the United States. Without Kuwait's oil reserves, the economic situation of US supply and demand in the oil sector would collapse. With Iraq in charge of the oil reserves, America cannot trade and make money (US Overseas Military Operations). It was therefore a necessary evil to invade Kuwait and Iraq to drive Saddam and his army from Kuwait and from power. Since World War II, the majority of interventions that have involved the United States have all been seen...... middle of paper ......ves. Therefore, U.S. involvement in foreign countries is a vital and key part of how the world is run and operates. Works Cited Council on Foreign Relations. American war in Afghanistan. 2014. cfr.org. Internet. April 20, 2014 Grossman, Zoltan. From Wounded Knee to Libya: a century of American military interventions. October 2001. academic.evergreen.edu. Internet. April 20, 2014 Horsley, Scott. American intervention in Libya: a noble use of force. March 28, 2011. npr.org. the canvas. April 20, 2014The world of 1898: the Spanish-American War. loc.gov. Internet. June 22, 2011. April 24, 2014 Tindall, George Brown. America A Narrative History, Eighth Edition. New York: WW Norton & Company Inc., 2010. Print. US military operations abroad make America safer, Bush says. defense.gov. Web April 22, 2014