Writing on Comment is Free about matters touching on war and opposition to war, Richard Seymour says:
Ironically, one of the best retorts to such posturing was supplied by the founder of "liberal internationalism", Woodrow Wilson, on the occasion of US intervention into the Mexican revolution: "I challenge you," he said, "to cite me an instance in all the history of the world where liberty was handed down from above. Liberty is always attained by the forces working from below, underneath."
Woodrow Wilson, of course, cannot be expected to have known about post-1945 West Germany or Japan. Seymour, on the other hand, you would expect to be aware of both.