Reply #2: It's a dominance thing

[teryang]

Senior military officers in particular confuse their behind the lines machismo with meaningful tactics. Hey! Go out there and show these s...n......rs who's boss!

However, the whole strategy was an ideological conquest and dominance move based upon chauvinism and blissful indifference to international law from the beginning. None of these people believe in diplomacy, persuasion and finesse. They believe in the bandwagon. And when that doesn't work, they believe in slaughter.

Might makes right, right? Negroponte is a hatchet man who believes in killing people to establish dominance like those who direct him and appreciate his dispicable services. But this isn't Guatemala, Honduras, or Nicaragua.