WAR

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I believe war can almost always be averted if two men of good will from the opposing sides will sit down and hammer out the differences. The problem is that sometimes there isn't even one man of good will, much less two. I confess I was a little hawkish about Iraq bacause sadam was bent on mass murder. Now I wonder if the invasion was the best policy. I'm still hawkish on Afghanistan because the Taliban and Al Queda were actively killing people. The country should be stable enough to support itself before we pull out.

It's getting increasingly difficult to automatically support the US. Increasingly the US government and its military exists for the sole benefit of wall street rather than the interests of the US people as a whole. The US is getting involved too much in foreign affairs and we are becoming ourselves too foreign. While striving to the day that the whole world can be under a single government is a lofty and desirable goal, no people should have to forfeit their birthright to achieve this. We are losing our liberty in fits and starts in order to establish a single government a full century before it might be achievable. Too many millions of Americans have died in the name of liberty to give it up in exchange for a little creature comfort or for security. We have the strongest military in the world but it fights more for wall street than for Liberty.