> Just curious, you would’ve been fine with Saddam bombing Boise, ID? <
No, I would not have been fine with it. I hate to see innocents killed, anywhere. However, such a move would only have put Saddam on the same level as Bush II - a warmonger who caused needless deaths.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not some pacifist who wanders around with flowers in his hair. Sometimes you’ve just got to grit your teeth, and pull the trigger. Pearl Harbor was such a case.
And another such instance occurred in 1936. Hitler marched into the Rhineland. France did not pull the trigger. Hitler was emboldened, and that pretty much made WW II inevitable.
So, yeah. Sometimes things are not so cut and dried.
But sometimes it is. Bush II did not have to invade Iraq. Putin did not have to invade Ukraine. War crimes, both. But your mileage may vary. I respect that.
“Bush II did not have to invade Iraq.”
I agree with you.
You’re definitely not wrong about Bush II. Total POS.