[conservatism_IS_compassion]

put Exxon/Mobil in place, and then say "come stop us from taking your oil."

Excellent!

Their ability to get petrodollars, and not Bagdad, is what defines them as a power.

Dominate that . . .

[cibco]

"The Pentagon's weapon of choice in Afghanistan was the joint direct-attack munition (JDAM), a $21,000 device attached to the tail of a simple gravity bomb that enables it to be guided by GPS to fall within thirty feet of the target. Only four of 4,000 JDAMs dropped in Afghanistan went off target."

Wow! That's a better percentage rate than a DNA test.