If you treat a country as a cash cow, why would you care about the people's well being or the welfare of their country? Just throw some money and weapons at the regime in power and reap the rewards.
its not the responsibility of the west to build a society for these people, they have to do it for themselves.
To add to the inequality, human rights only gets a mention when it suits the west. The Rwandan genocide was used to justify Paul Kagame's murderous regime which is now helping the west plunder Congo's resources. Back then there was a racket about the regime in Somalia until a US friendly regime was installed. Now it is Darfur, Sudan because China has secured some lucrative resources while the US was concentrating on the Middle East.
you're being a bit blinkered there. the 3 countries you mentioned are all synonomous with starvation, mass murder and civilian suffering on a grand scale.
everyone wants resources, and people play all sorts of underhanded games to get them. but when there is serious strife and there is visible suffering for large numbers of innocent people, the west will take a moral stand. obviously you can't take a moral stand on everything but places like bangladesh, cambodia, somalia, ethiopia, sudan where MILLIONS of people are dying / displaced, then the media starts showing distressing images and people start jumping up and down so governments will (eventually) step in.
so while business is usually priority, mass murder doesn't sit well with the west so we start to meddle and send in troops / the IMF or whatever. china on the other hand doesn't care and leaves other countries to their own business, whatever it may be.
Pronto said:
Ah, you didn't mean to say 'Australia' instead by any chance?
who can tell the future? we have a lot of unsettled land in the north west with good water supply, abundant fishing and huge amounts of natural resources. climate change could displace tens of millions of people in the pacific / southeast asia, a belligerent china could make a play for the kimberley to secure iron ore supplies to feed its monstrous urbanisation schemes, who knows? the world is still a work in progress and nothing lasts forever. it pays to be adaptable.