As in, when an "opportunity" presents itself (however slight and flimsy, or great and imperative), what reasons/incidents do you consider necessary to justify the USA going to war, or even a "conflict/whatever".
Please choose your generalized poll option and post with your reasons for doing so.
None of the poll options really suit my views all that well.
At present, we are acting as the world's superpower and policeman. We go to war when we decide some nation is a threat to the
Pax Americana, the American-imposed world Peace, not necessarily a threat to us directly.
If you think that's a good thing, then it is in our intrests to attack nations that building up to attacking their neighbors before they are actually ready to do so. Case in point, Iraq and Iran. My own opinion on that is, well maybe... sometimes.
Otherhandwise, we should go to war when our intrests are threatened and war is the best option for securing our intrests, if you are a pragmatist. I tend to lean this way. Afganistan, Korea, WW2...
Then there's the thought that we should only go to war as a last resort, if someone is threatening us directly with real and imminent harm or invasion. The last really serious threat was Cold War USSR; before that maybe 1812 or the Mex-American war for any kind of "invasion". I think that when we take this position, we run the risk of letting a new "Hitler" grow too powerul before moving to deal with him.