Please post for us where the US Constitution alows for the invasion of another soveriegn nation without the declaration of war.
Our nation was not founded to build and empire sir but to protect the intrests of its citizens. If our miltary was at home defending our borders and not those of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Japan, Germany, Poland, England, Kuwait, Bahrain, and several South American countries I argue that terrorists could not have brought us to harm as they did on 9/11.
Early 1800s, Tripoli, Corsairs, Tom Jefferson(a founding dad) this book (READ IT): http://www.amazon.com/Shores-Tripoli-Birth-Marines-Bluejacket/dp/1557509662/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1305214685&sr=8-4