America needs to work out its own interests in such a process and this hasn’t always been easy in the absence of a direct physical threat to its people, such as during the World War. It might even be an American mistake to describe the AfPak actions as a singular war rather than a series of ‘world security actions’. These very legitimate security actions have been several wars with the first one in 2002 against Al-Queda reasonably successful, the second one of establishing the idea of UN and NATO human rights working better than anything in the last 4000 years, with a third security action being the establishment of local infrastructures with 400,000 people that can create a region, note entire region, in which crimes against humanity can’t become the dominant mechanism. It is a serious perceptional mistake to define a region (Afghanistan, Kashmir, Baluchistan, East Iran, and Waziristan) with no ‘territorial integrity’ whatever (the requirement of national peaceful sovereignty over a region) and with a large percentage of its people determined to carry out crimes against humanity (Criaghum) for their own economic and ideological compulsions as a zone of “war”. Traditional war means the annihilation of the opposition force, including its supporting population. The process of bringing a region from the mentality of 2500 years ago to one free of Criaghum isn’t a “war”, even if the military is the principle agent of change.

The American doubt, in and out of the government, seems to be that of confusing Criaghum counter measures with war, along with not being able to see any obvious benefit to an impoverished American society from the counter measures. Of course, there is no obvious benefit to a remote sewage treatment plant, either, but watch what happens if it fails. Americans need to understand that people engaged in Criaghum or other predatory attacks on human beings (addiction, slavery, usury) must have a counterforce of Justice and Rights that sends the attackers back to their caves, preferably with bars. As for those who think Criaghum will simply go away if NATO force goes away, they need to read the definition of treason as written in the Constitution; ignoring a 6000 year old enemy, genocidal crimes against humanity, IS giving aid and comfort to any enemy of the United States and its democratic friends.

From a practical standpoint, world security actions have to be paid for and it is unfortunate that North America is the only society that has had the ability in the last 60 years to prevent Criaghum WITHOUT a territorial imperative. Those ‘justice chores’ come under general welfare and common defense in the American constitution and perhaps they should be paid for by other societies as well. The traditional idea of ‘war bonds’ goes back to the Spanish-American ‘war’ and there is no particular reason that a international bond system could not be created for prevention of Criaghum regardless of where the military agent of change is deployed. Could the world, along with North Americans, contribute 60 billion a year to prevent crimes against humanity even if the immediate return was not too visible? Suppose there was a five year bond in which the interest rate was keyed to the decrease in the number of genocide incidents from the date of issue?

And after saying that an aide has to bend down and wipe the drool off Grassley's shoes…….what a Repug loser that fool is !

Nevermind the monetary cost……Those dumbass working class and middle class fools will keep on paying.

I hope Iowa gets it's act together and sends this clown back into obscurity.