[MatthewViti]

"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other in order that the people may require a leader." -- Plato

[Angelus Errare]

I agree.

However, if your Plato quote is intended to act as an indictment of Bush, I would remind you that we are already engaged in a low-level (by Chechnya, Kashmir, or Mindanao standards) guerrilla war in Iraq. That is indeed one of the rationales behind an argument not to send us into Liberia: we don't want to spread our troops too thin.