[rmlew]

In other words, we give up any pretense of being a power.

The authors of this are whores if not traitors. Their loyalty is to their prostituted careers, not the country. If they cared about country, they would publicly resign rather than be complicit in this.
Sell out your country and get a star.

[guitarplayer1953]

Why do you believe that it is our right to go into countries through out the world and force our doctrine of life on them? The founding fathers would of thought of this doctrine akin to what England would and wanted to do in their day.

[Psalm 144]

If we -are- that depleted, the fact should not be public knowledge.

If we are -not- that depleted, this declaration is contrary to national interests and invites aggression.

Either way, such decisions and policies should be classified.

[pepsionice]

For over 150 years....we basically existed with a one-war strategy. This only changed in the 1950s after re-examining the whole landscape of WW II. The idea that we’d ever go back and repeat a two-war episode is questionable. Even now with Iraq and Afghanistan....we are in a patrol-mode rather than a war-mode....and it’s hard to say if we learned anything relating to two-war strategy from this whole experience.