thedeadlyhook

I'd have a longer reply for you if time weren't a little tight for me right now, but I understand what you're saying, and from other conversations we've had, I think we're generally on the same page of thinking that a right action is a right action regardless of political considerations. And there really isn't anybody here, frankly, who was sad to see Hussein deposed, or didn't think it was a good idea. The part that's worrying me, and a lot of other people here, is the way that action was used not so much to export freedom as to occupy another country and then to cluelessly exacerbate their existing internal issues. I know the Middle East situation is far from simple; it's been a powerkeg my entire life, so it's not that the area has ever lacked its own self-lighting fuse, but to see other countries following suit after the U.S., abandoning diplomacy and deciding to go straight for the guns, scares the crap out of me. The world does not feel a safer place to me right now, does not feel like a place where rational thought is driving a lot of the decisions. And a lot of innocent civilians caught in the middle.