re: No, it is not.
"We fought the Cold War largely because of capability, not known reality"
Hahah. I see, the Cuban Missiles and the Warsaw Pact military force was, um, not a know reality?
This just gets stranger and stranger.
"Post 911, the capability of Saddam to spread his known capabilities was too great."
Like all those piles of WMD we found? Those 'known capabilities'?
Ever hear the story of stone soup?
"We were completely justified in the war. "
Plenty of incorrect and immoral people sleep nice and tight in their beds convinced of the correctness of their deeds. That you feel no pang of remorse certainly does not convince me that this war was morally correct.