[DiogenesKynikos]

The last time the US defended freedom through military means was WWII.

As Abraham Lincoln said, the greatest threat to freedom in America is a domestic tyrant, not a foreign army.

[adastra22]

Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Grenada, Libya, Lebanon, Iraq War I, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq War II were all fought for or over democratic ideals & the defense of democratic institutions.

All were driven by multiple competing and sometimes conflicting goals, and many look questionable in hindsight. It is fair to critique.

But it is absolutely not the case that the last time the US defended freedom through military means was WWII.

[DiogenesKynikos]

Not a single one of those wars was in defense of freedom and democracy.

I'm not going to go through all of those wars one-by-one, but are you joking with Iraq War II? That war was sold on the lie that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was somehow behind 9/11, by a president who himself had stolen the 2000 election by getting his brother to halt the counting of votes in Florida.

[blitzar]

> over democratic ideals & the defense of democratic institutions

Corporations, natural resources or getting a blowjob from the intern ... these are neither democratic ideals nor democratic institutions