[Walkingfeather]

There is no winning wars when the leadership hands over the political weapons to the other side. Your smoking some heavy crack if you believe I don't understand the idea of "taking care of our allies". But there are just some things that you don't do just for the appearance.

You are forgetting that the Middle east business is rife with bribery. All it would take is some low level guy to turn the other way and boom. The risk does not out weigh the benefits.

[Earthdweller]

"The risk does not out weigh the benefits."

Let's calculate your risk. We lose all our allies in the ME because we can't trust ANY of them and they join together to come at us full force. Bright long term view.

Next the Dems win the '08 election because the Pubs are lying hypocritical so and so's who SAID they are in the ME to "help" Muslims but can't trust the counties that let us launch our base of operations to conduct said war.

Talk about Micheal Moore material...this will make him look like a genius, and that takes some doing.

Long term effect of the Dems winning '08...kiss your security goodbye.