What would have to happen before you would condoned the use of military force?

Question

I just realized that I wrote condoned rather than condone. sorry.

Answer 1

1) A clear threat to my own freedom or security
2) An ongoing genocide or mass-murder
3) An attack on the forces of my country or a close ally's by an official army.

I'd condone a military strike on Sudan's air facilities. I wouldn't condone an attack on Iran.

Answer 2

The bombing of the training camps in Afghanistan and taking out the Taliban was right on the mark. That is who attacked the U.S. We should have stayed there and finished the job.
Who could argue with that?

Iraq was an illegal preemptive attack based on questionable intelligence and entered into under weird circumstances with little planning and thought for what would happen after Saddam Hussein was gone. Bad move.

Answer 3

Good question. An attack on this country--including 9/11--certainly justifies the use of military force against the attackers--as in our invasion of Afghanistan.

But even such extreme provocations don not justify the use of force against parties not involved in such an attack, no matter how little liking we may have for them. Which is why the invasion of Iraq was wrong.

Answer 4

An attempt to assassinate our President.
Breaking a cease-fire by shooting at our planes.
Lying and deceiving a U.N. investigation they agreed to repeatedly while bragging to their allies that they had WMDs.
Supporting terrorists attacks against our allies with money or supplies.
Invading one of our allies and compromising our national interests (Kuwait).

All the things that Saddam/Iraq did.

Why, do you need more?

Answer 5

9/11.
(Even though it may have been pulled off by George Soros, Move On.org, and the Democrat Party.)
Even if they did, they were still supporting the terrorists.

Answer 6

A hell of a lot more than fictional weapons of mass destruction

Answer 7

any direct threat to the freedom of any american or allied peoples, or any invasion of said people

Answer 8

If our country was attacked, it would warrant use of lethal force.

Answer 9

An attack on our soil.
That's why i support the war in afghanistan

Answer 10

if it resulted in attacking an ally