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Okay Optional, I'll admit that I'm being somewhat idealistic. (Which also a relative term.) Regarding your analogies, they are good ones, but you do realise that the superpowers of the past all tended to be empires? If so, I agree that the American empire is indeed the most humanitarian...

Comp, you still don't get it do you. Who or what is Iraq harboring? Where is the damn evidence? If you meant to say that you truly don't give a fuck, just kill all the fuckers and "save" America, fine. At least you'll be one of the few honest ones. Did you happen to notice all the :D...

Have you, in your long years on this earth, perchance come across the concept of "lesser of two evils"? Obviously, I consider American hegemony and continual policing, probing, interference, and God knows what else behind the scenes (see -- I'm not too young to think it doesn't occur) is a...

Oh, you mean things like managing your economy and resources, so that people have jobs and food to eat? Excellent. I thought for a second there you might be referring to your recent invasion of a foreign country that has never for one second threatened the existence of America.

Because, crusader, that's Iraq's problem.

I think Skeptic failed to pick up another difference: clandestine air strike vs full scale invasion.

I could apologise to you TM, you've been a great laugh. But I wouldn't mean it. I DO hope your country loses this war, although I don't really think there's any realistic prospect of that happening. I detest the current administration's "we'll do what the fuck we want", and "whatever we...

Let's see then: -- that explains the tinfoil hat -- Alphonso[sic] is a gay man's name -- Alphonso[sic] aside form being young and queer -- [have you been stabbed?] and not with your uncle jose's schlong Yeah, you're right. What was I thinking, that's not insulting!

LOL. You are a classic TM! After absorbing insult after insult from you, I make one innocent assumption (grounded, as it was, in realistic observation -- quite unlike yours) regarding your bravery and you bring out the knives :D (accompanied by, the now customary, further insults.) I'm...

Why would someone risking 1% of their equity on a trade need MAJOR cojones to see it through?

What's with all this "coward" talk TM? What exactly is cowardly about being defeated by a superior military force (if mfse is French)? I notice you, yourself, haven't volunteered to fight for this cause you so strongly believe in. Pretty easy to be "brave" behind your white picket fence.

What, the American police can't "walk and chew gum"? :)

Let me ask YOU mondo, where You have been the past 12 years? How many Iraqi WMD assisted attacks on America did you witness during this time?

Prediction: by the end of this conflict there will more dead Iraqis than 9.11 and then next 6 conjectured terrorist attacks combined. So much for "saving lives".

1. You misunderstood me. I wasn't implying that it is America's goal to destroy every other nation. I was replying to your point that you America should have attacked Afghanistan in 2000 because it was a cause for concern. Half in jest, I suggested that perhaps America could simply destroy...

Sorry, I didn't make my meaning clear. I said a "pacifist abhors all wars", and I said that I think it is perfectly okay to defend yourself from attack, ie to engage in a war of self defence. Therefore, my point was that I am not a pacifist.

...There is another trader's disease - fear to pull the trigger. If we pulled the trigger on Afghanistan/Al-Qaeda in 2000, we would not have 9/11. How's this? Destroy every other nation on earth, and you'll never have any more causes for concern. ...We have to learn from our mistakes...

Stands to reason. I saw a poll the other day saying that 51% of Americans believe Iraq was behind 9.11

You've been watching too much "Minority Report". :) Or perhaps it's some traders' disease -- Guilt by Speculation.