Originally Posted by LoSconosciuto";p=&quot

the American Foreign Legion. Not the American Legion, the American Foreign Legion. It's motto: Everybody else's business is our business. The logo would be a giant nose buried between two buttocks.

This would be the group we'd send in to mop up any "objectionable" foreign powers. Gender would not matter. Age wouldn't matter. Physical condition wouldn't matter. Mental stability wouldn't matter. Any tough talking old woman, with bad knees and an artificial hip, would still be welcome to strap on an M16 and have at it... whether she hears voices in her head or not.

Jokes (sorta) aside, I understand the original poster's point. I see things on TV or read about something that makes me think how great it would be if we could send in the 82nd Airborne and kick the stuffings out of some murderous dictator. But just like in Iraq, when you do that, you have to be prepared to stick around and rebuild. And how often is it that the main bad guy is the only bad guy. Just like in Iraq, maybe you end up with multiple bad guys filling the vacuum you've created.

If nothing else, one thing I hope we've learned (this time) is that if you want to go in with guns blazing, you need a plan that extends past the V-Day celebration.

But one of my main questions: at what point does our government decide that it should take from the people it represents, to give to those it does not represent? It may seem like a cold question, but it is one which (IMO) MUST be answered before another feel good, multi-billion dollar crusade is begun. Forced redistribution of wealth is forced redistribution of wealth, no matter how you try to spin it. I generally do not agree with this scheme. And that's another reason I oppose fiscally liberal, nation building neoconservatism, as this relates it to its Trotskyite roots.