OxymoronP
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Pardon?
I haven't said that interests shouldn't be the reason behind a war, but that interests don't justify a war.
What does justify war?
Those are two different things.
The same reason why the USSR worked so hard to spread communism.
If they share your ideology, they share your values; and if they share your values, there's a good chance for them to side with you in any future conflict, or simply on the international ground.
I agree with you to an extent, but sometimes other interests prevent us from spreading our idealogy. For instance if we pushed Democracy on Saudia Arabia we would loose vital geopolitical position in the region, and the Democracy could bring a Taliban style goverment into power. Democracy is only as valid as the circumstances on the ground dictate. Hitler was Democratically elected dont forget.
You don't know how waiting a year would effect the area.
It might have done better and it might have not.
It couldnt have gone worse thats for sure. There was no risk to delay the war, Saddam possed no direct threat to the US or our interests no more then in 2000 1999 1998 1997 etc.
I believe the people at the top who take the decisions had an access to the best intelligence resources, unlike us.
Actions prove they were either cherry picking their intelligence, or were just purely incompetent.