>>..but as a superpower, don't you think the US has some responsibility to stop genocide? Not saying that's the sole reason we did it..but my point is that there doesn't necessarily have to be a threat to the US to justify an invasion in some cases yes?
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>Good question.
>Here's one way to look at it...
>Let's suppose that we didn't have hundreds of thousands of troops waiting around to be sent in, and we had to initiate a draft to have the needed troops - as we did in WWII, Korea and Vietnam.
>As a member of congress, would you have voted to initiate a draft to send troops into Iraq?

Excellent point. Also the flip side of being able to kill a couple of hundred via drone with only material cost - which makes sense short (no TV of wounded) and middle time (less problems in elections) but will hurt in the long run: more 9/11 style retribution or Orwellian counter measures needed.