[sd-joe]

"Sending American boys and girls half-way around the world to play nanny to ingrate countries? World policing under such circumstances is a form of masochism."

This is NOT playing nanny OR world policing. This is ELIMINATING a direct threat to our country and our people. It is the only smart thing to do.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Saddam is secularist, Mussolini wannabe. Bin Laden and his ilk hate him for this. The Bush adminstration has decided to launch this war primarily to "build democracy" (a complete pipe dream) in Iraq so as to create a counterweight to Saudi Arabia. A second goal is to eliminate Iraq as a "regional threat" (e.g. help Israel). All of the above goals have nothing to do with home defense.

Another foreign war will go down as yet another failure of internatioanl social engineering in the tradition of Gulf War I, Somalia, Haiti, and Kosovo. The track record of such projects is terrible but, for the world policers, nothing seems to succeed like failure.

Conservatives showed such good sense when they opposed the Haiti and Kosovo interventionism. Now, they have become hopelessly utopian Wilsonians.