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"Good to see I am not the only one who noticed the echoes of leftist “anti-war” attitudes in this thread."

While we all should be "anti-war" in the sense that no one should want to go to war, the one sure way to bring war upon ourselves is to be unprepared and unwilling to fight one. I am afraid our side of the political divide is not immune to the complacency borne of comfort that now afflicts our society at large. No one today wants to get involved in anything, from foreign affairs right down to local politics, because to do so might disrupt their comfortable lifestyle and actually REQUIRE something of them. And it is because of that withdrawal from the duties of citizenship that our country is so rapidly going down the tubes.

The irony is that pretending that withdrawing from the world will keep us safe is in reality the surest path to our destruction. We may not be looking for war, but war is most assuredly looking for us if we don't prepare and confront evil.

Just to amplify my previous point: If you think of the modern world metaphorically as a nuclear reactor, then the U.S. is the equivalent of the control rods. Remove the rods from the reactor, and the reaction goes critical and the reactor melts down. We are currently witnessing this in spades.

Like it or not, there is no other force for good in the world with the ability (rapidly waning now) to keep the world from melting down. If the Paulians out there think the Russians or Chinese will play this moderating role if we continue to withdraw, then I simply don't know what to say other than please get counseling soon to address your delusion.