Why long term security requires a really big stick...
..but won't allow us to walk quietly.
Iraq, Iran (Hezbollah), and North Korea are security threats that won't soon go away. If they have their way they will go nuclear, and worse, develop long range delivery systems (missiles, most likely) to project said weapons of mass destruction. They may also be developing biological agents which present a similar peril to the civilized world.
We will need a missile defense, and we are rapidly developing the engineering proficiency to accomplish the same. We will also be able to reliably detect nuclear devices and biological and chemical agents before they arrive on our shores by subterfuge or the like. Unfortunately, accomplishing all of the above reliably will take another decade or more to perfect.
Thus the need to not walk so quietly. America must involve itself in the world, engage the enemy, and degrade the enemies arsenal and ability to build that arsenal. We must beat back those renegade nations, and nongovernmental organizations who would produce and use these WMD's.
Thus we must use force, project our power, and delay the threat, at least until we have an adequate shield, and until prosperity and democracy have eroded the ability of these rogues and dictators to utilize these weapons..
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Maybe we ought to rule with more than one Big Stick. Ponder these facts: Iraq is comparable in size to what Germany was during World War II. There were approximately 2 to 3 million troops occupying Germany during World War II from the Soviet Union, United States, France, and Britain
In Iraq today, there is an estimated 150,000 troops from the United States and perhaps a couple thousand more from other countries.
Why then did President Bush take it upon himself to invade Iraq when the United Nations would not grant resolution to use force in Iraq which would have likely provided the assistance of millions of other soldiers from other countries? Now our troops are alone over there trying to complete the insurmountable task of rebuilding Iraq. It’s obvious we need the assistance from other countries. We CANNOT do it alone.
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