What really gets my goat is that it is a policy of preemptive self defense. Which country is next on the list to be toppled because it might at some point in the future attack the US? Israel attacking its neighbors in 1967 when it was clear that they were going to attack Israel shortly was preemptive self defense. Invading Iraq when it presented no imminent threat to the US was not. Going after Iran, Syria, Sudan, etc under the same circumstances won’t be either.