Morally Complex Questions

In writing my Issues Paper for this Writing 150 class I have come across many morally complex questions. The question of my Issues paper is "Why didn't the United States prevent the Rwandan Genocide?" However after further pondering and speculating the moral issues that arise with this paper, I've begun to ask myself even deeper questions such as "Was it the responsibility of the United States to prevent the Rwandan Genocide?" or "Was the United States justified in making it's promise to the world to prevent genocide?" These questions delve much deeper into the issue and don't simply assume that the United States should've prevented the genocide. In responding to these questions I feel that the answer to both is yes. Yes it was the responsibility of the United States and yes the United States was justified in making its promise to the world to prevent the awful atrocity of genocide. As the most powerful economic and military nation in the world, United States has great power and with that power comes great responsibility to protect human lives around the world. Some may argue that the issues in other countries aren't any of our business but this isn't the case at all whenever human life is being destroyed at such a rapid pace, all citizens in the world must be concerned. It is the responsibility of the United States to prevent such massive killing of human life because we are most able and capable of saving these lives. Also we were justified in making such a promise to the world to prevent these genocides because genocide is such an atrocious thing that America as the most powerful nation should never allow it to occur unchecked.