Will the War in Gaza Ignite the Middle East?..Israel and Iran On a Collision Course

That word is meaningless. I would say we have become the world's largest sponsor of terror, especially since our funding of Israel's disgusting campaign of terror, and regularly take part in terrorist activities ourselves. That "different kind of war" has been stupid, wasteful, and making things worse in the world since it started.
Our great strength has made us a lazy nation, more willing to smash everything with military power rather than fix problems through fair negotiation and diplomacy. It has given rise to what lazy people call "terrorism". There ARE some true terrorist actions, but the vast majority are not. The attack on the US base was not. That was more of an insurgency or guerilla attack against a legitimate military target.
Killing people in a host country that does not want us killing people there is just wrong, and is going to destabilize the country, as Iraqis see their government as being complicit in supporting operations they do not support, as well as killing Iraqi civilians, damaging infrastructure, and undermining Iraqi sovereignty.

 

We fight for justice.
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.”
― John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy

 

I wonder how many really participated: