Montana, GOP conflicts/wars are those of liberation or necessity. Since when is freeing Japan, Germany, Western Europe, Korea, Vietnam (for a time), Grenada, Panama, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Iraq, and allowing either democracy (Europe, Germany, Japan), pushing out hegemonic/Communist crazies (Pan, Grenada, Desert Storm, etc) a bad thing. By 2013 we will be fully out of Iraq with small advising contingencies and Afghanistan will be longer but that is a totally different war. (I would encourage you to read the Status of Forces Agreement aka S.O.F.A.) For Afg, think fighting in the "little brother mtns" of Everest and trying to help out different families in an early 1900s WV+different languages customs, alliances, etc.
Edit: Oh and btw, the events leading up to a war are essentially WHY wars are fought. It is called conflict analyzation. If you wanted to convict a serial killer and had know psych background on him it would be detrimental to your case. I hate when libs use the whole red herring/divert the context of the debate to generality BS.
