Re: Don't applaud questionable motives
"Under its historic principles and treaty commitments, the United States does not invade sovereign countries, unless it is attacked. That was the old way of looking at our national values, pre-Iraq."
Of course, this is not true.
And US was constantly attacked by Iraq, when US pilots were flying the No Fly Zone. Though technically this so called "pre-Iraq", started after Iraq invaded Kuwait- and even though Kuwait wasn't protected by a specific US treaty and Iraq didn't attack the US, we made a decision not to allow this Iraqi aggression stand.