Mark49:

"Let somebody else take the heat for a change.  Let somebody else take over the role of World Cop, and go broke spreading their way of life around the world.  Let somebody else be the rogue state, the bete-noir of the civilized world."

 

There is nobody else. We are it. We can either retreat or attack. Radical Islam has declared war on the West, and our strategy since 9/11 has worked. If we retreat, they will come after us. I had rather take the war to them.

Mark 

America's stature in the world fallen off a cliff.  Hatred and animus of the middle east inflamed.   Iran's power  and influence on the rise.  4000+ Americans and 100,000+ Iraqi dead.  Oil at $4 a gallon.  Our economy in shambles.

Saddam was not radical Islam.  He was a secularist.  This war has nothing to do with 9/11 and everything to do with the projection of American power.   Were we truly the greatest nation on earth we wouldn't feel the need to have to prove it.  And without us, there would be no war.   Remember it is we who have been over there the last 50+ years.   Not the other way around.