[ilgipper]

I really don't expect you to look into it, because your little fantasies about the United States government freeing people from oppression are much more soothing.

I am sure the people of Eastern Europe, all of Europe after WWII, Japan, and other countries would disagree with you.

Foreign policy is a difficult business, and an enemy at one point might be a friend at another time. It is simply a universal truth throughout history. Isolationism is not the answer, except to Paulites.

[pocat]

So, if we truly liberated them, should we continue to occupy these countries over a half-century later?

Nothing isolates us more than having American troops stationed in numerous countries around the world where we are not welcome nor needed. Is this how you think we make friends?

It's nothing more than "job creation", neo-con style.