NotfooledbyW
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A big part of the argument for war, was that a functioning democracy in the ME would be a powerful ideological challenge to Islamic Extremism.
Iraq was presented as a good candidate for that.
Nation Building to create an alternative model, as a counter to Islamic Fundamentalism, in the contest of ideas, was a GOAL that I found convincing.
So what is the difference between “an argument for war” and a “goal” of a war of aggression that we are choosing to start against a non-aggressive nation?
I always understood the goal of a just war (other than mitigating the results if genocide) is to destroy the enemy who is actively attempting to destroy or conquer you.