Benghazi: What's the Charge Again?

[Heywood]

We never invaded North Vietnam or even tried to marched on Hanoi. It was decided that such an escalation of that conflict did not have a positive expectation. We never seriously considered trying to bring democracy to North Vietnam. The situations are not analogous.

In the sense that they were decade-long quagmires with no real aim and driven by flawed, faulty goals, justified by deliberate falsehoods and ended up being complete failures which wasted the lives of thousands of American servicemen and far more of the local population, they are analogous to the point of absurdity.

Again you are being "results orientated". We would have been justified going to war with Japan even if it lead to being conquered by the Japanese. How the Iraqi war turned out has no bearing on whether it was justified or not.