"Perhaps the difference between our two countries is we prefer not fighting wars on our own ground and try to fight them in someone else's ground. That is both good and bad if you consider that makes such things a much more distant and less threatening situation for Joe Six Pack here in the USA"
I've heard that argument a couple of times before as justification for invading Iraq and every time I hear it, it strikes me as supremely cynical. I bet you wouldn't think that was such a great concept if you were an Iraqi civilian.