I'm not sure what's happened in the past 75 years that would make people think we were capable of military intervention that didn't make things worse. Or would make people believe anything US authorities say about our motivation and capabilities.

The good imperialist nation(s) fighting the bad imperialist nation(s) is a pretty familiar story at this point. And we already know the winners are the military industrial complex and whichever horrifying rightwing weirdos we empower in the country we're ostensibly helping.

I don't know man. Kind of feels dumb to have this argument again so soon after 2002-2003.