Was that so before 2002?

it is America’s ability to assemble and bring together the world on our side, never has the United States been more hated abroad than it is today. We’ve managed to fall for the very thing our enemies desired, to appear as though we are the agressor brutes of the world, pushing our culture and demands on a world that is feeling unimportant and insignificant.

Indisputable. It started with “You are either for us or against us…”

Kevin, far more damning than any criticism by the American electorate is the commentary of now retiring British commanders from both the “Shock and Awe” and “Reconstruction” campaigns. Most prominent is General Sir Michael Jackson –
“Retired Gen. Sir Mike Jackson said former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s approach to the invasion was “intellectually bankrupt” and that his claim US forces “don’t do nation-building” was nonsensical, according to quotes excerpted from his autobiography and published by The Daily Telegraph…
“All the planning carried out by the State Department went to waste,” Jackson wrote. For Rumsfeld and his neo-conservative supporters “it was an ideological article of faith that the coalition soldiers would be accepted as a liberating army.” “
I seem to recall many others who thought so.

To put this in context the United States has diplomatic relations with China which is a far bigger threat to America than Iran will ever be. Let’s try the U.N. and direct diplomacy pronto.

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Instead of bolstering America’s resolves, Iraq has made Americans more wary and cautious of any military intervention and for good reason. It has compromised our militaries readiness and capability to handle “real” threats, threats which are genuine and very serious.

But it is not just our militaries readiness that has been comprised it is America’s ability to assemble and bring together the world on our side, never has the United States been more hated abroad than it is today. We’ve managed to fall for the very thing our enemies desired, to appear as though we are the agressor brutes of the world, pushing our culture and demands on a world that is feeling unimportant and insignificant.

America might again return to the world’s darling, but it isn’t going to happen as long as we have these war mongering, greedy corrupt “god fearing” men running our country. It will happen when we realize military solutions should remain a tool instead of a means.