[richardtavor]

Good Point, XRP--did you know that's how we got dragged into Vietnam? Why do you think the French colonized Vietnam, fought against their War of Independence, then conned Kennedy/Johnson into fighting it for them? We also had to pay the french $100,000 for every rubber tree we blew up on their damn plantations. Anyone that read Milton's "Paradise Lost" would understand the french: "It is better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven."

[johnb838]

Or Patton "I'd rather have a division of Germans in front of me than a division of the French behind me."

These are the people that said if we intervened in Iraq we had to intervene everywhere there's a dictator. It's total bull. The main thing is that the UN can't hack it I can't see sending our boys in there with the same ROE. It should be more like "don't make me come in there..." and if they DO make Daddy come in there we should certainly kick tail and take names. No more Mogadishu's please, and this situation sounds scarily like Somalia.