The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase.

Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.?

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT's Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.

Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use!