[fabsroman]

I agree with your second post for the most part, but don't agree too much with the first post above.

I agree that we need to worry about ourselves first. Whether or not the US has pissed off a lot of countries remains to be debated. A lot of countries might be pissed off at us, but we might not have pissed them off. They might just be pissed because they think we are better than them.

I completely agree that China would be a serious power to reckon with if there was a World War and what really scares me is that China is now telling Congress to keep its nose out of a major oil company take over by a Chinese company. Congress is worrried about the takeover from a national security stand point and I am willing to bet that China wants that oil company for a national security reason.

We have a bunch of things to worry about, but at the end of the day 10,000 troops over 5 years isn't a big deal. We lost 4,000+ people in a single day on 9/11. How many were lost in World War II over a 5 year period? Something tells me a lot more than 10,000. Just did a search and it was slightly over 400,000 lives lost in World War II.

I know, a single life is hard to lose, but sometimes it has to be done. I watched Saving Private Ryan the other night and the way that Tom Hanks' character dealt with having 96 men killed under his command was by telling himself that the death of those 96 men saved over 100 times that many lives in the long run.

War sucks, but sometimes it is inevitable. War is usually the result of envy over somebody having something while the other person doesn't. Kind of like a starving lion having to watch another lion eat a kill. Since the resources on this planet are limited and the human population continues to multiply exponentially, there will be plenty of war.