Quote Originally Posted by hoosier
Even if you don't accept the idea that the US should care about humanistic principles, there is still the argument that it's in the US's interest to be seen globally as a beacon of democracy and justice, and that intervening in Kosovo promoted that goal, whereas invading Iraq didn't.
It's always startling to me to see someone try to wrap themselves in knots to justify one intervention as being for democracy and justice, but somehow, deposing a brutal dictator and his sadistic family, establishing the most advanced democracy in the Mideast outside Israel, with religious pluralism, in the interest of reducing terrorism, while securing one of the largest oilfields on the planet, is somehow not even in the same category. Do you even read what you write? Do you even think about it?