laoman - freedom and democracy are not free, nobody’s playing revisionists history here, you must not have the same meaning as I do when is say, “In modern times…”. The Vietnam war was a debacle and with the luxury of clear hindsight, a mistake. War is now being played out, when possible, with precision munitions so that collateral deaths and injuries are eliminated or greatly lessened. But it’s not always possible, and it’s often very ugly both to body and mind. But that can’t take away the good the U.S. does in this world, in these MODERN TIMES, not 50 years ago.
hilde45 - nobody is stealing oil out from underneath anyone’s sand, it’s being bought and paid for. If this moron of a president we have now had half a brain we’d be oil independent. And by the way, I think they’re both morons, I simply like conservative policies much better than the alternative.