Maybe it is a surprise to you, but no 'military intervention' by imperialists was ever undertaken for the purpose of saving some oppressed people's lives, nor will be in the future, for all their rhetoric -- period. If they invade another country, that's because they see either a chance or need or both for asserting their direct control over a given situation (as opposed to indirect control), the result of which is not pretty, even for people in whose name such an 'intervention' is conducted. Look at what happened to Somalia. Or Iraq. Or Bosnia. Or Kosovo. That's our point if you missed it. Had the Left in the West been in better shape & strong enough to pressure our respective governments to _not_ to give a go-ahead & aid to Indonesia when it first invaded East Timor in 1975 (in other words, when Fretilin was better organized and poised to take control of a newly independent nation), it could have prevented the current state of affairs, not to mention past atrocities. But the Left was weak and still is -- hence our inability to save anyone's life -- including lives of peole lost to poverty and misery in our own countries, in our own neighborhoods.
Yoshie