Mister Badguy wrote:

foogla wrote:

What I want to know: are Rumsfeld's cronies now declaring the next war(s)? Syria, Egypt, Iran...sounds great!

This thing was always about Saudi. Rumsfeld's people drew from the same Reagan doctrine that is the reason you live in an unoccupied united Germany. The other side is reactionary, as in, "don't do anything and hope no one ever slams jets into our skyscrapers, then if they do, launch cruise missiles ineffectively into a desert and bomb Bosnia."

You know, once upon a time people were delighted that the US had the most advanced and powerful war machine on the planet. Now the consensus seems to be we should let it atrophy while the rest of the world catches up and marginalizes the US. You will of course understand that some of our leaders do not agree with that point of view.