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The story as presented in American media has the predictable elements. A horrible "revolutionary leader", a man so vile as to be beyond comprehension, murders tens, no hundreds, even thousands of his countrymen and must be stopped by any means possible. Enter the white knight of Western intervention. When American, the attitude is of the gentle giant once again reluctantly shouldering the great burden of being the "world's only superpower" but knowing of course, that no one else can 'do the job'. When British, it has a bit of "bloody hell, can't very well leave them to their own devices then, can we?" Oh the burden of being white, rich and good!
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