If war comes, you have to fight it, but you don't have to lie about what you are doing. I suspect that, given the low caliber of public officials and the apparent consensus that the American government should pursue an imperialistic foreign policy, there is another war waiting for us somewhere down the road. There is no use kidding ourselves that a U.S. attempt to dominate the world won't meet with resistance. This war won't be one of those easy muggings of a small country but a war that will teach a new generation of Americans what war really is. To purport to go to war for humanitarian purposes is a contradiction in terms.
Nothing is more inhumane than war.
To state that you are going to kill people and destroy their homes and jobs for humanitarian reasons is insanely hypocritical. That actually happens. Making war for humanitarian reasons is like ending a hunger strike by withholding food. It plain makes no sense to create human misery in the name of stopping human misery. These days language is being mutilated more than even George Orwell could imagine.