Ohhh! You are SO right! The scales doeth drop from mine eye...
You sure did put me (or at least my evil strawman version) in its place! Yessiree-bob!!
No, its not about liberation:
Kuait: Invaded + ally =justified and liberation
Afganistan: Liberation was a kind gift while we STOMPED THE PISS out of people who HAD attacked us- that war was NOT about liberation, that was NOT the reason nor justification for that war.
Iraq: no justification for the war on the basis of self defense. Thin attempt to retro-actively justify the war as a 'war of liberation' IS BS and POST-FACTO.
Davin L.