That is why he has always supported United Nations involvement there, he said.
Yet Washington's last involvement there, a decade ago, rapidly turned into a military and political disaster.
To go there at a time when the future of Algeria and France's involvement there was dangerously uncertain, was courageous.
He sees continued US military involvement there as contrary to American interests and could simply pull out, leaving the country to the Taliban and al-Qaida.
The Guevara family viewed Cuba as a kind of quaint, distant Illyria, and their son's involvement there was an inexplicable curiosity.
While they have not specifically discussed the assistance it is airlifting to Syria, American officials have spoken publicly about Iran's involvement there.
Despite their country's growing involvement there, helping President Álvaro Uribe's government to fight the country's largest rebel group, the FARC, they had managed to avoid the rebels' sights.
Britain is unusual among rich democracies not in how much private involvement there is in its public services, but how little.
Most people know Vieques for the protests over the U.S. Navy's involvement there.
Most people know Vieques only because of the protests against the U.S. Navy's involvement there.
(That program continues today, though Chang stepped down from her day-to-day involvement there several years ago).
