Glad you mentioned the goalpost moving. If we come back to whether wars of aggression are justified or not. Does a happy outcome justify them? One interesting

Glad you mentioned the goalpost moving. If we come back to whether wars of aggression are justified or not. Does a happy outcome justify them? One interesting example here is in the 80's people could say "South Korea might be a brutal military dictatorship, but it is doing well economically, and therefore that justifies the Korean war" Which is interesting of course, because in the 1960's, when North Korea was ahead economically, I'm sure North Koreans had the same post-hoc justification. And if you look in to how US support for the Ba'ath party was justified... Strikingly similar but with the added dimension of US security interests vis a vis maintaining or restoring the Iranian dictatorship. That all that brings us full circle to whether the Iranian revolution is justified by having got rid of a regime at similarly torturous as Saddam's.