[TheDon]

Imperial ambitions? What a laugh! If America had imperial ambitions we would have let Saddam take Kuwait, and every other Middle East country with oil. Then use him as a puppet ruler to provide us with all the oil we want at a minimal price, while starving the rest of the world into submission.

I always find the application of the word "imperial" to the US by the Demorats and their statist friends to be quite amusing. They really have no idea what they are talking about.

[ImphClinton]

You are so right.

[Norse]

Putin is right. He is cautioning us about getting involved in every little crap conflict throughout the entire world and that we shouldn't think of ourselves as undefeatable if we do get involved in other arenas. That would be the worst mistake. We can be defeated. The first step to avoid defeat is to realize that.