We don't have the budget...we are to busy thinking we can "nation build" in a region that would sooner "slit our throats" than to look at us.
That ole "New World Order"...daddy Bush "vision thing" getting in the way.
And...what flavor of "kool-aid" do you prefer tonight???
China does, and with a lot less resources. Something is wrong somewhere. Like we don't know that already.
The Japanese were are sworn enemy and were just as ruthless as these Islamic whack jobs in the middle east, this war is not with Iraq or Afghanistan, it's with the culture of terrorism in that entire region, and unless we confront it now, we will not be able to if one of these dead enders get a hold of a nuclear arsenal.
What part of that can't you get through your isolationist, head in the sand mind?