[MrLeRoy]

On what bases other than force or fraud does classical liberalism approve of government action?

[headsonpikes]

I am chary of reducing any human event, whether personal or historical to a mere instance of some closed explanatory model.

While granting that combatting 'force and fraud' seems to capture the thrust of liberal governance, it is still an ad hoc exercise to explain a whole series of historical events by means of a formula.

Human life and human motives are far too complex to ever be truly summed up in a nutshell, imo.