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About your last paragraph..............IF they use weapons of mass
destruction... IT WILL BE TOO LATE!
   I don't want to wait until my family has been either nuked or hit with a
chem. agent.
If we have the means to avert this coming destruction of our own people, then we
must at all costs.
   That's exactly why we have a military. Let me guess, you don't believe it is
your patriotic duty to do your part right?

Slartibartfast wrote:

> The USA is bound by treaty and tradition to defend not only Europe and North
> America, but also the Balkans, the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, South
> Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan, Australia, and
> Latin America.
>
> A few of us are simply asking, "why?"
>
> Its time for the USA to bring home its armed forces from all over the globe,
> to abolish these entangling bilateral and multilateral treaties, to tell the
> United Nations to take a 3rd World Hike, and to have a policy of "trade with
> all, foreign entangling alliances with none."
>
> Being policemen of the world has resulted in us being hated by the world.
> The world is full of ingrates on their part, and we are filled with
> self-righteous moralists who send other people's sons and daughters to fight
> and die on foreign land for ingrates.  Enough is enough.
>
> Isolationism?  No, trade and tourism and whatnot with all - but empire with
> none.
>
> As for the weapons of mass destruction - well, if they use them, and if it
> harms us, then we can and should act.  Finding the criminals who destroyed
> the World Trade Center should be a priority.  Saving Turkey and rebuilding
> Iraq so they can both oppress the Kurds should not.
>
> Alan