The Declaration Explains It

I was just re-reading the Declaration of Independence. I think it explains in a nut shell exactly what this war is about. We intend to extend the benefits of this document to the world. We are going to end usurpations and despotism.

It is the Jeffersonian ideal which we are all trying (with varying degrees of success) to live up to in America:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

So there it is. The guarentee America is about to extend to the uncivilized world.

I think this news item explains it best. N.Korea Says U.S. Rights Law Makes Talks Meaningless

Here is a government that say it will not give its citizens their rights. America is officially opposed to such governments. Such moral clarity. Not like the Euros at all.