Yeah, let's invade China. I just have this little confusing problem about what people want. The Global Left wants to monopolize the notion of equality, freedom of expression, and basic human rights, yet have no energy beyond a picket sign. Their picket signs even protest action to bring such things to some people, while dismissing these aspects, for favor of protesting pure oil greed (It doesn't matter that the population receives an opportunity for the Leftist dream in the process, you see). I'm sure they will put the picket signs down and cheer the military on as they move past one Chinese village after another liberating the oppressed and "forcing our culture" down their throats.
President Clinton (the hero of the left) sought to inspire Americans to support a bold global role - to give a sense of purpose and idealism to the country's actions in the world, lest the American people and their leaders succumb to the temptation to withdraw. This resembled the neoconservative effort to build new national projects. President Clinton's era saw repeated attempts to end the UN's hypocritical containment mission in Iraq with us as enforcer and blame taker, police action against genocide in two other "new" nations in Europe, and a fixed coup in a Caribbean island nation. All represented the neocon's agenda to bring true peace and westernized democracy to the world. Such things ensures that we have less and less work to do in regards to making sure our much wider and bigger interests are secure in the long term.
But when it came to the oil rich nation of Iraq, the neocon was branded as evil by the Left, which often abandons it false principles to reveal more of its true identity. They had no problem accepting neocon agenda (of whose members were all former Democrats turned Republican during the Carter era because the Leftist sermon was more BS than sincerity) when their guy sits in the White House, but not so much when there sits another.