Religion
In reply to the discussion: The Most Persecuted Religion in the World [View all]And we need to use the military to protect them, because killing hundreds of thousands of Muslims in their own countries for the sheer hell of it and kidnapping them and torturing them didn't count as persecution last time, and won't count as persecution when this happens, because only Christians can be persecuted.
Edited to add: To oust the puppet dictator we supported in one country and the fundamentalist whackjobs we armed because we hated the godless communists in another, no less. "Hey Muslims, we're going to give these dudes lots of weapons and let them brutally slaughter you for a few decades, then when they annoy us in the slightest we're going to invade and butcher a whole lot more of you. We'll be expecting you to kiss our feet while we hand out bibles and shoot you with rifles with bible passages on them. Then we'll write silly articles about how persecuted we are."