[Sherman Logan]

You cannot bleed your nation to death with endless war.

Not what we've done, assuming you are speaking in a financial sense. Had our domestic spending been maintained within even semi-reasonable bounds we could have handled the wars of the last decade quite easily.

And your comment makes even less sense if you mean "bleed" in the literal sense. We've had roughly 6000 soldiers die in Iraq and Afghanistan in a decade.

Sad for the families of those killed, but hardly a blip on the screen for a country that lost over 350,000 killed on the roads in the same period.

Which is not to say that either war was necessarily a good idea to get into or that either was handled effectively.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Domestic spending is obviously out of control, but the fact is that our budgets were in good shape when Clinton left office. The anger I have over a hyper-interventionist foreign policy is over the missed opportunity to take advantage of our geographical isolation by conserving our wealth and manpower by letting the rest of the world weaken themselves in conflict and arms races. It's sad that so much of the conservative outlook these days has more in common with Woodrow Wilson and FDR than with Robert Taft.