I think you summed it up best when you said "Might Makes Right."
One day we will be on the recieving end of someones pay back.
You make your points very well Mephisto.
I really do not believe that the world has been plunged into chaos over the invasion of Iraq. I think the that perhaps the US Government wanted, as I said, to choose the time and place for the battle on terror and they chose Iraq two fold, one they would have centeral location in the heart of arab controlled middle east, and they got to take out one of the worst SOB's of the Last quarter century.
I honestly believe it was a dilibrate and intentional military objective to take on Iraq. This way our forces would have a solid base of operation if the need arose to take on other arab countries.
Now the ends should never justify the means, and lying to us about the objective may have been nessassary in order to preserve the hidden operational objectives of the real mission.
I simply do not know. I do know that many countries are peeved at us over this and I am sorry about that. I don't know what to say other than whats done is done, and I hope that eventually this dismal situation will improve and we all, every Last one of us including the Iraqi's, end up having better lives for it.
Our world is one of constant conflict and it has been so since the dawn of our time.
No one knows what the next hundred years will bring, but I do honestly believe that what we have seen here over the Last three years is just the beginning.
I fear that Kerry will win, he will do something stupid like re-odopt Clintons failed foriegn policies, cut the budge for the CIA, FBI, and Military, withdraw from Afgan and Iraq, and kiss the asses of the European nations like a good lap dog should. Clinton sold our economic future to the Chines, I fear Kerry will sell it to the European Union, and the terrorist.
I am sorry but I really don't like the man.