Posted by: ArtooFeva
Afghanistan was basically an accomplice to the Al-Qaeda organization.
The Iraq Invasion that you seem to be alluding to still remains a mystery and quite the possibly the most imperialistic and invasive use of United States power since the Iran-Iraq War.
So I don't know what gives the US and the west in general the right. I just know it is happening and has made differences both good and mostly bad. There's also the severe human right's abuse that the extremist culture of the Nationalistic and totalitarian regimes of the countries including former Iraq and Syria. That isn't justification for war, but it is something to take action against.You can't take action without going to war. Both of these countries had and have a brutal dictator, respectively. Whether you like it or not, the U.S. changed Iraq for the better and there is no arguing that. Not only did we remove a dictator who slaughtered thousands of innocent lives, but we helped construct a democracy and spent billions building schools, roads and other infrastructure.
Also, notice how chemical weapons are now turning up in Syria. Syria is a whole other issue in itself - but many intelligence professionals believe that thousands of WMD's from Iraq were transported into Syria prior to the invasion of Iraq (due to the advanced knowledge of the invasion, thanks to Dick Cheney). Who knows where they are now.