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Using that logic, why haven't we invaded, N. Korea, Cuba, Iran, or China? They all have dictators that do all the bad things that Saddam did. Since we want to spread freedom all around the world, they should have been invaded by now. Everytime I ask a war supporter this question I never get an answer back. Why is that?
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Everytime I hear this I'm reminded of little neighbor kids I used to babysit. There was a kid down the street who bullied all the other kids. One day I caught him beating up the little girl whom I babysit for the day before. I backhanded the bully and he ran off. His mother came to my house and threatened to call the cops on me. When I told her how her son was beating up a defenseless girl she said "well you never stopped him when he was fighting other kids".
So this is our situation. We didnt stop Saddam when he was killing the Kurds or Shi'i. We didnt stop N. Korea as he lets his people cannibalize each other just to survive. We have the power to stop bullies doing bad things. For various reasons we generally dont (namely we're called colonists, imperialists, etc). In two instances in the past 4 years we did it and lifted two large countries from the clutches of bullies. Now ontop of everyone calling us various names we are called by those same people to continue it against half the world in order to prove ourselves worthy of a goal we already proved to fight for, the progression of democracy and the abolishment of evil.
I view doing a little bit of good as infanitely better than sitting idlely by and letting evil men subjegate the good.