Stop trying to police world's conflicts: #tellusatoday

We asked our followers on Twitter whether the U.S. military should intervene in Mali and other countries in Africa. Comments are edited for clarity and grammar:

We should not be involved in Mali at all. Why do we have to act as if we are the world police? This is exactly why there is hostility toward us. We do not run the world.

— @YS614

If we have the resources, we should help the innocent civilians.

— @alliekimmel

Don't send personnel. Let's focus on protecting within our domestic borders. And continue drawing home troops.

— @PlumbbobGreen

Shuttling French forces sounds pretty safe. Drones are good.

— @wmarkdyer

The U.S. needs to stop playing Big Brother to the world. It's time to return to the isolationism of the early 1900s.

— @Brooke_YG

The United States should protect its interests, no more.

— @BjornUlv

We've been notoriously absent in Africa since Somalia in the early 1990s.

— @DaRealMattOates

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