Pham Bihn: Cruise Missile Marxists? http://mostlywater.org/cruise_missile_marxists

Every imperialist intervention in world history has been waged under the pretext of saving lives...Imperialist interventions unleash a chain of events that cannot be foreseen with any meaningful accuracy; there is no way of knowing for sure how many lives will be lost due to intervention as opposed to allowing events to run their course without imperialist interference...[I]mperialist wars that start small and limited tend to end up being large and bloody.