[gridlock]

...I've been called an extremist for these views.

Say it isn't so!

I would agree with you that America has to come first, but sometimes it is to our advantage to take care of problems overseas before they come back to bite us in some painful place.

The trick is to figure out which missions are worth it and which are not. To me, Iraq (and the subsequent missions) are worth it. Kosovo was not.

[Cacophonous]

If we do Iraq right - move in, do what we have to do, and then get the hell out and leave them to their own fates - I would agree. I just don't see that happening. If we had followed that formula in the Balkans, I would have had no problem.