OldWorldOrder
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It had everything to do with Neocons and the now defunct Project for a New American Century (PNAC) of which Cheney,
Wolfowitz, and Rumsfeld were members. They're the ones who were calling for a Pax Americana, meaning that the US would impose order on the world through force or threat of force.
That was just an offshoot of neorealism, which is basically the only thing foreign relations folks the world over adhere to.
The PNAC is now on the dustbin of history, but the war lives on.
That's great, but neorealism continues. The war was undertaken for all the reasons I've given you repeatedly in this thread. It might've failed, it might've not, but a bunch of anti-war/anti-imperialist folks at home all but assured it was useless as soon as they waged their public relations campaign. They're idealists and that's nice but it's- by definition- not practical.
...yet they keep trying to affect policy. It's depressing, really.