Reply #45: It might make a refreshing change, since our current policy

[Lydia Leftcoast]

of sending troops around the world for every reason and no reason hasn't exactly been a roaring success, not to mention all the people killed unnecessarily and all the money wasted that could be better put to use improving this country and helping the world's poor.

I developed an antipathy to unilateral military intervention during the Vietnam era, and NOTHING I've seen in the intervening years has changed my mind. In fact, this Iraq debacle has only strengthened those feelings.

One of the worst aspects of American culture is the equation of patriotism and militarism.