Cut the drama, it does not work with me.
My post was simple fact. But drama, as in justifying a radical departure from accepted behavior, apparently works quite well with you--else why are you supporting a half-baked program? Or do you have an answer, that is not merely a wise crack for my argument:
Europe has more realistic concerns on that subject than we do. The area is in her back yard. We should be more focused on the present nuclear North Korea, a nation we were at war with in the 50s, and one that has never abandoned its hostility.
There are six nuclear powers, far, far closer to the Near and Middle Easts than are we. They do not need our presence to protect their interests. And our youth are not the playthings of theorists, in the grip of delusions of grandeur or messianic fantasies.
But let me get more specific, without using more bandwith: Iraq--2005.
William Flax