system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5 How does the U.S. justify intervening in the Middle East due to the region being unstable but not intervening in Mexico when the country is being ravaged by drug cartels?
gpt
Because Mexico is stable, even though it isn't peaceful. Cartels are a danger to the Mexican population, certainly, but they aren't making Mexico a threat to the US or any neighboring countries.

Or, to quote Eddie Izzard: "Pol Pot killed one point seven million Cambodians, died under house arrest, well done there. Stalin killed many millions, died in his bed, aged seventy-two, well done indeed. And the reason we let them get away with it is they killed their own people. And we're sort of fine with that."