[Austin Willard Wright]

What sanity? Policing and "protecting" foreign countries who, according to the author of the vanity, hate us. A better word to describe such a policy would be masochism.

[Eaker]

It is simple.

Saddam and the rest of his merry men want to kill us.

We don't want him to.

We are going to stop him.

We are going to stop ALL of them.

See, simple.

Stay safe; stay armed.
Eaker Freeper Status

[capitan_refugio]

We are not policing or protecting France (for instance). I agree with the author. As the rhetoric from the French and others goes up, the more sure I am in the fundamental correctness of our leaderships' actions.

Leadership is not finding the parade and stepping in front of it. Leadership is taking an unwilling parade the way you want to go, because it is the right thing to do.

The United States will have a role in the post-Saddam Iraq. We will have a presence in the region. And despite what the naysayers and spineless contrarians have to say, a strong U.S. presence in the area will decrease the terrorist threat at home. This is because we will be able to better keep an eye on them and we will have the assistance of the very, very grateful Iraqi people.

The British learned the folly of "Peace in Time." The Americans learned the price of isolationism in the face of authoritarianism. Evil must be confronted.