Please read this
I linked it below, but I'm not sure I put enough red flashing neon signs around it.
This is what is being proposed. As the author concludes:
If we do decide to seize empire, we should make that decision knowingly, as a democracy. The price of maintaining an empire is always high. Kagan and others argue that the price of rejecting it would be higher still.
That's what this is about.
Yes. So, let's stop pretending it's about the women and children, or the free pie, or anything else.
