[mburbank]

"The WOT is designed to close the gap."

HAH! The WOT is not 'designed' to do anything! Maybe it could be, maybe you'd like it to be, maybe it should be, but what it IS is a happ hazzard collection of nutsiness that is rapidly eexhausting our manpower and our wallets. We took our eye off the ball in Afghanistan, Iraq is a big fat mess, and who all knows what's next.

I don't disagree that closing the gap would be laudable, but just look at the home front. This administration doesn't LIKE closed gaps, they have been widening the gap right here at home.

"Despots and Dictators are what cause disconnectedness."
agree... mostly.

"These are the things we are fighting"

Disagree STRONGLY! We are buddy buddy with all sorts of dictators and despots, and when we DID topple a despot, we let all hell loose! If Despots and dictators were what we were fighting and closing the global gap was the reason, I might have many an objection, but at least something coherent would be going on, it might amount to a strategy.

You are describing a WOT you want and the current administration doesn't feature people like you. It features people as ridiculously, insanely sure of themselves as Abcgdgcdh and is 'led' by a man who makes Kultyklub look like a man of near normal intelligence.

It's like saying "Cars are good, not bad" and failing to think about the fact that the car your in is being driven by a rabid, blind Orangutan that hasn't been fed in a week.