I'll counter with "what justifies by sitting down and doing nothing" That's sounds just like the UN stance on everything. The United Nations is a useless organization that does basically nothing but watch conflicts instead of stopping them. Diplomacy does not work in all cases. Diplomacy will not work in Iran either. You can actually see the EU/US is trying to pressure Iran to stop it's nuclear program showing signs of "force" an obvious given. Is it better that we do nothing in the world, but sit on our collective asses and go against any war till its at our door step? I'm for preventative maitenance, I hope you damn well are too. In the end, what you fail to understand is the world will never be an equal place, there will always be people who hate us no matter who we are and every nation works in their own self-interest. It's a given fact! What's so bad about working in our self interest? Better us providing an opportunity in the world as a nation that does help, than another nation such as North Korea ruling the world with an iron fist....