Ping!
Goes all the way back to stupidly getting into WWI.
We are witnessing the end-days of American Progressivism. First abroad, then at home.
Ya think?
We deserved it in other words?
The libertarian conceit that everyone will act like rational economic agents if we don't "meddle" is simply utter nonsense. We will be attacked by some parties for the same reason mountain climbers climb mountains: because they can.
Neither Stalin nor Hitler nor bin Laden gave a rat's ass about the final cost of victory or whether it passed a rational cost/benefit test.
Ron Paul: Clueless then, still clueless then with it being reposted.