if I called myself a liberal

and stood for the liberal party, you would expect I would be a liberal and not a conservative or a socialist. I think that would be reasonable. I think Bentham and Mill were the founders of liberalism as a political statement and their liberalism included consequentialism of moral actions - that an action was morally right if it had good consequences leading to happiness; and morally wrong if it had consequences leading to unhappiness.
So what does that say about intentions? It was all very well to have the intention of bringing about good consequences for Iraqi people as a result of the Iraq war but things went pear shaped. Was this not foreseen? 6 billion people around the world minus the supporters of the coalition of the willing (300m Yanks; 60m Brits; 20 m Aussies; some Poles and assorted others) could see the consequences would not be good. Were the liberals pig-headed or just stupid?
So what should be done about Zimbabwe? Whose responsibility is it to do anything? I drove past a hold up the other day and didn't do anything. Doesn't matter. I didn't know the victims anyway. Why lose sleep over it? All those Iraqis dying in their own country. Doesn't matter. Our intentions were honourable. That makes it OK.