Well you bring up some valid points. It's hard to be supportive when we question the dignity or morality of our President's decisions to go to war. We would rather avoid what we view as "unnecessary" conflicts. I hear views both for and against. I lean toward the against, because I feel that it may certainly backfire eventually and probably sooner than later. We can't depend on our military might alone to solve world problems whenever we want forever.
With Liberia, it MIGHT be better than not doing anything. Someone on The Leherer News show on PBS today pointed out Clinton's failure to get involved with Rwanda. Hundreds of thousands or millions of people died there possibly because Clinton chose not to get involved. Bush may not look too bad for involving our troops here, but that could change depending on the outcomes.
I was far more weary about Iraq, than Liberia, but it is very troubling that we are so involved overseas. Some question the "police state" that we are being to the rest of the world, the arrogance. Bush is being consistent in how he's going after anti-US groups, but I think we are living in the last days of planet earth, and that we may be choosing between bad and worse in some of these complex situations. At the end of the temporal era, everything goes haywire, and the conventional ideas fail. If we really want to make a difference, we are going to have to be creative, courageous, and try perhaps unconventional ideas out. But I'm getting ahead of myself. We're going to have some trouble before anything gets better, you can bet on that. So it is good to have awareness (NOT the straight inc. kind) about the events and times we are living in. Speaking of these things brings to mind the Terminator movies. I saw T3 on Wednesday and LOVED IT, more so than the second one. See it. The Rise of the Machines was so gnarly!
North Korea will go to war with S. Korea, but not next. Watch Iran.