It's rare that we're not involved when there is a major international incident -- bombings, terrorism, coups, civil disasters.
There has been strenuous debate over whether America should get involved when there is famine in Somalia or Sudan, genocide in Rwanda, mass killings in East Timor or a refugee exodus in Kosovo.
"Regardless of the motive," the judge said, "regardless of the country involved, when there is that kind of fraud against the United States government and the immigration service, that is a serious interference with the enforcement of our legitimate laws".
"We get involved when there is a risk to the consumer, but manufacturers are responsible for making sure the products do not pose a risk to the consumer and for making sure claims are not misleading".
One account suggests that the lateral prefrontal cortex underlies the temporal organisation of behaviour [15], by integrating information across time: prefrontal mechanisms are involved when there is a temporal discontinuity in a sensory sequence.
Get involved when there's an oil spill.
That's all great, but I wanted to know how smaller companies get involved, when there may not be millions of people out there talking about them?
I became involved in 1997-98 when there was extremely widespread coral bleaching around all the oceans in the tropics," he said.
"And we should have been very clearly on the side of saying, 'We in the United States oppose the leadership of Syria.' " Still, before addressing Syria specifically, he said, "Military involvement, kinetic response, should be involved only when there's a significant American interest at stake".
