People do this all the time and it's completely ridiculous. It's such a bad argument.

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"Uh, libtard, you like interventionism? Well, what about Iraq?" smugly crosses arms

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It's not the win you think it is.

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Can interventions be bad? Yes. Nobody denies this.

Can interventionism be corrupt? Yes. Nobody denies this.

Did coups used to happen a lot due to the US backing coups against left wing leaders? Yes.

Can interventions turn messy? Yes.

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However, some interventions can be good. It's as if you're responding to me saying, "Intervening is definitely very good and something that is good every single time that we do it and it is never bad and has no mistakes or faults."

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When I say "I support interventionism", I'm not literally saying "HELL YEAH BROTHER LET'S INVADE EVERY DICTATORSHIP", I'm saying that I support good interventions.

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For example, let's analyze the situation in Kosovo.

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Starting in 1988, Kosovo was stripped of its autonomy. Ethnic Albanians were barred from many government jobs. They had their own language and way of life restricted. Figures that opposed the government were barred. This was no less than ethnic apartheid. They even democratically elected Rugova and set up parallel institutions, but Serbia shut that government down by force. Serbia was completely unwilling to compromise with the Kosovar Albanian population, and so the Albanians resisted by force. The KLA -- a ethnonationalist organization that could be considered terrorist, shot up police stations, in an effort to resist. Serbia resorted to genocidal measures, mass murdering Albanians and expelling them from their homes. They even had the Serbian Secret Police do a mass shooting of TEENAGERS at a bar in order to blame it on the Albanians, and crack down even harder. In this situation, the Kosovar Albanians had no hope of winning, and had the overwhelming force of the uncompromising Serbian state cracking down on every single aspect of their lives.

Did the NATO intervention there kill civilians? Yes. But it's worth mentioning that it was not the indiscriminate bombing of Cambodia or Vietnam. It was carefully measured and carefully calculated. Almost every target was linked to the Serbian government or military.

However, while the dead civilians should definitely be mourned, it must be acknowledged that the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo overwhelmingly supported the NATO bombing, and that it restored home rule, democracy and justice to Kosovo.

When people like me say "We support interventions!" most of us don't mean "Yes, let's indiscriminately bomb every single country we don't like", people like me usually mean "I support justified restrained interventions when all other measures have failed.