[mburbank]

No, I don't trust the mission to this administration.

No, I would not favor go in with military force without a plan. I wouldn't support that under any scenario.

Those are two of the reasons I don't support what we are doing in Iraq.

My point;

Is there EVER a situation where we should step in with our army in a situation that does not directly and immidiately involve the security of the USA.

I'm not sure. Maybe.

BUT. If there is, I think trying to formulate a plan to stop genocides
(and as a Jew the whole 'never again thing' makes me nuts, because genocide is an ongoing phenomenon and barely took a breather after WWII) should be the A1 absolute top of the list.

Kev; I'm aware that what I'm really looking for is a time machine.
I know we are in Iraq now.

I am not calling for an immediate withdrawl from Iraq and transfer of those troops to the border of chad. I am calling for a drastic rethinking of our foreign policy. I think we as a nation should be talking and debating what we are doing. When the subject of Darfur comes up politically, most of our representatives are deaf.

I know talking and debating sounds callous and futile in the face of genocide. But our nation is a vast, slow beast and we are in a terrible place. I will take a lot of effort to9 change the direction we as a nation are headed, turn around and offer even the possability of being useful anywhere else. My point is that as long as we are bogged down in wars of choice like Iraq, we lack the money and mobility to even try to help when all hell is going on somewhere else. That is a cost of the war we are in that needs to be counted along with Iraqi lives and american money and dead soldiers. That yet again genocide is taking plce while we watch and do nothing.