[rmlew]

Albright comes from the same line of thinking as Wolfowitz: what is the point of an army if you don't use it.
Please find something to that effect.
Their cavalier attitude differs only where we deploy the troops first. Neither care either way about the defining issues of American Conservatism (lower taxes, gun rights, anti-abortion) and yet the Wolfowitz/Albright crowd is allowed to set the limits of debate on Iraq. Albright is not an anti-war leftist, she is merely saying we should go slower, hardly even a tinge of ideological difference; strictly supperficial political difference.

Albright opposes going into Iraq. She believes that only the UN can justify war.
They are in complete disagreement over when and how to use force. Both are willing to do so, but Albright (like Pelosi) refuses to do so in US national interest.

You calim to be a nationalist and yet keep running with this abstract Western Civilization theme so you lost me, and I suspect you are a party of one.

Actually the editors of National Review and Frontpage Magazine agree with me.

The Monroe Doctrine was the belief that we are in charge in our hemisphere; that is the litmus test I use on whether I support a military adventure or not.

1. We have historically acted outside of our hemisphere from 1793 onwards. We also did nothing about most European colonies in the Hemisphere until the Spanish American war. Of course, most Paleo-cons detest that conflict.
2. So You think that we should get rid of the Communist/Narco-terrosit conspiracy taking over South America? If so, I agree with you. I simply think that we should kill the Islamists first.

Your last line leads me to conclude that you did not read the article or did not understand it. You are in full agreement with the author (an ally); you just differ on policy prescriptions. Your hostility lies most likely in a lack of confidence in your own beliefs. The author suggests, before we go trancing around the world, that we stop letting Islamists into the country who are not only coming in legally but are being flown in with US assistance.
I never said the author was completely wrong. I just have a different belief in what our national interests are. I am an anti-UN, anti-NWO, internationalist. Think Hamilton to your Jefferson. (actually, that's not fair. Jefferson wanted teh US to get involved in plenty of conflicts.)

[JohnGalt]

If your spectrum runs from invade Iraq on the right, invade Serbia in the Middle, and invade Montenegro on the left, than God help us. If you have not witnessed political posturing in your lifetime, than no wonder National Review and Frontpage are perfect magazines for your level of understanding.

No, I pretty much think we should leave South America alone too and end the secret war we have been fighting in Columbia these past 6 years that keep Lieberman's handlers so happy with the gunship orders.