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KantianBurke wrote: ("most of the Right regards the use of American power to vanquish evil as the greatest good the U.S. can engage in.") Oh please. Our armed forces should be used ONLY to defend us! Period. The men and women who protect this nation should NEVER be used to "fight evil" UNLESS its a direct threat against us. For example, Mohammed Fara Adid was a pretty evil guy. But we never should have had anything to do with him or his G-dforsaken country.

To define self-defense only as a response to an aggression is a loser's mindset — but then again paleoconservatives are nothing if not losers.

[KantianBurke]

Where did I ever specify that the defense of this country should be limited to responding to an attack?? My point was simply that our fighting forces should ONLY be used against bad guys who are a threat to US! Not to some idiot neighboring tribe in the Congo. But US! Those who serve shouldn't put their lives on the line to fulfill someone's fantasy about cleansing the earth of evil.