I don't think so. The places that descended into civil wars and mass killings in recent years had experienced tremendous economic and environmental shocks before them: collapse of commodity prices ("[F]rom 1973 to about 1990, Rwanda was relatively peaceful. This had little to do with Habyarimana himself and much to do with the generally stable price of coffee and tin. The economic blizzard of the later 1980s caused havoc. The striped blazer brigade on the London commodity exchange traded Rwanda's coffee and tin" [<http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj73/kimber.htm>]), draughts that pit farmers against pastoralists (e.g., Darfur), and so on. We in the USA and other rich capitalist countries have not been subjected to the same economic and environmental stresses, so we aren't "in Weimar." Capitalism affects us all, but it just doesn't have the same dreadfully negative impacts on people's lives here as it does in already impoverished countries. So, here we are, waging a couple of wars and debating more missile strikes and military interventions elsewhere, all in the name of saving lives.
-- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>