"We do not exist for the sake of others!" seems to be a credo forgotten in this spewing of imperialistic nonsense...... it would appear that the socialisticness still lies underneath those who cry "Saddamites!" to those who disagree with them.... maybe "once a tribalist, always a tribalist"?

But besides this basic human me and mine, it is also a blindness to his own welfare. For in an age of readily transportable biological weapons, such as anthrax, and nuclear weapons, no longer can a country like the U.S. sit back and ignore what goes on elsewhere in the production and deliverability of such weapons. In the hands of those who hate the democracies and their libertarian values, democracies have too much vulnerability to attack. Now, involvement and intervention in the rapacious affairs of thug regimes is of necessity a protection of democracies, not to mention advancing human rights and the freedom libertarians praise.

The notion espoused by R.J. Rummel... that democracy will somehow put an end to war is a very old and very discredited idea. As Ludwig von Mises
wrote in Human Action (Scholar's Edition, p. 818), this theory was popular in Europe in the late eighteenth century. The theory, as Mises described it, is this:
"For the people wars do not pay. The only cause of armed conflict is the greed of autocrats. The substitution of representative government for royal despotism
will abolish war altogether. Democracies are peaceful."

Of course, substituting representative government for autocracy requires war itself, as Mises noted. But, supposedly, such a war would be "the last war, the war to abolish war forever."

This theory was disproven almost immediately. Once "democracy" was firmly in place in France, and the French revolutionaries repelled Prussia and Austria, "they embarked upon a campaign of aggression. Of course, under the
leadership of Napoleon they themselves very soon adopted the most ruthless
methods of boundless expansion and annexation . . ." (p. 819).

The real cause of unlimited warfare, wrote Mises, is economic interventionism of all kinds.

"While laissez faire eliminates the causes of international conflict, government
interference with business and socialism create conflicts for which no peaceful
 solution can be found. While under free trade and freedom of migration no
individual is concerned about the territorial size of his country, under the
protective measures of economic nationalism nearly every citizen has a
substantial interest in these territorial issues. . . . What has transformed the limited war between royal armies into total war, the clash between peoples, is .
 . . the substitution of the welfare state for the laissez-faire state."