[JPhillips]

Buc: Left-leaning? Who exactly is left-leaning at Time? As for Burma I'd like to encourage the French to act and we can support with naval/air forces if necessary. As long as we stay within 50 miles or so of the coast I don't think the ruling junta will risk a shooting war.

Brian: What constitutes dealing with terrorism? Our adventure i Iraq has been acknowledged by nearly everyone to have increased the rolls of Al Queada. In Afghanistan we've been supported by our NATO allies, but we chose to pull forces from there to fight in Iraq.

Part of the problem with neo-con foreign policy is the seeming belief that any military action in the ME is a good thing. I believe that events have shown us that military intervention can sometimes leave us weaker than no intervention. The issue isn't intervention or isolation, it's about the judgment necessary to determine good intervention from bad intervention.