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The US intelligence and foreign service communities are keenly aware of these horrible things. The question is whether Congress or the executive branch have the political capital to do anything about it.
You're talking about spending political capital to deploy money and human resources to help with the domestic affairs of other countries. Okay, fine. Sometimes we do that. Has to be in America's strategic interest, though.
If a dictator invades an ally or starts genociding self-realized people who desire democracy, America offers help. I know Israel has some serious problems with representative government, and so does America--both are defined as "flawed democracies"--but Israel is the only democratic government in the middleeast. We cannot let Israel fall and become another middle east authoritarian theocracy. And that doesn't mean we have to like everything they do domestically or that we cannot call for peace, as Biden has done. But it does mean that we aren't going to undermine the Israel government because it is literally surrounding by enemies, especially when it has a clear mandate, after Hamas conducted a military attack on Israel civilian population. Like wtf are you even defending here, Hamas?
Same as to the Rohygna. It's not just a matter of deciding to help innocent people caught in a defacto civil war. Since the recent conflict, through 2021, Myanmar had a legitmate government with a bicameral legislature and an executive branch not unlike America's. You're saying what, exactly, that the American people are culpable for not raising the political capital for a military invasion to protect Rohygna Muslims because we don't like its local, mutual sectarian violence? What does the plan for that invasion look like, anyhow? Are we also going to remain in country for the decades it will take to root out a culture of corruption? Is America even capable of rooting out such corruption when we can't root out our own?
Like, yeah, brother, nobody cares about the radical Islamist separatists in Syria getting killed, despite having been a part of the Free Syrian Army, only ever wanted to topple Assad to install a slightly different brand of militant theocracy. Are you saying we did nothing, and just watched it happen? America gave the FSA hundreds of millions of dollars to fight the Assadists to maybe turn Syria into a flawed democracy, too. Corrupt military leaders took the money and weapons and gave them to ISIL and Syria is basically a total loss.
Point is, it's not enough that innocent people are getting killed. The victims and their memory will never enter America's lexicon if there's no political capital--because there is no means or reason of self interest--to really do much about it. The media simply does not cover it.
It's like gang violence in America. Most of the murders in America are gang members getting killed by handgun violence, but the only (limited) political capital spent to address gun violence is left for victims of stranger murders or mass shootings, nobody gives a fuck when gang members are shooting each other as nothing of value is lost.