I was in favor of both Wars. The only mistake we made is not taking off Saddam's head in the first one.
The Mistake we made in the Second one was disbanding the Iraqi Army and banning Bathe party members from government. That and trying to force Christian ideas of equality onto a Islamic culture.
We should have made it clear that once we moved into Iraq that we were going to stay there for at least twenty years and occupy the country. Because anything short of that guaranteed that whomever replaced Saddam was going to be at least as bad, if not even worse, or that Iran would simply take over Iraq. Short of that, we should have never gone in.
The use the Godfather analogy, Saddam was a pimp, but it was Iran all along.
I agree with your assessment. We as Americans like to parrot the idea everyone deserves freedom. Well, there are vast differences around the world as to what freedom means. Islam is more than a religion. It is their everything. It dictates every facuet of their being.
So my question becomes does everyone deserve freedom? Or do they only deserve the freedom they, themselves are willing to shed their own blood for?