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Originally Posted by sck5
It is very telling that Repubs seem to think that doing ANYTHING other than bombing or shooting someone is "appeasement". There is such a thing as diplomacy, and at times it can have very useful results - For example, it was very important to have a strong military ready to stop the USSR - but we never fought a war with them, instead using diplomacy until the day they collapsed.
The USA used to believe in diplomacy and had many allies who supported us both diplomatically and militarily. Since we abandoned it in favor of lying our way into "preemptive" wars we have lost our allies, bogged down our military and become less secure as a result.
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Are we to use "diplomacy" to pacify every jihadist out there? Perhaps Bush should have sent Colin Powell into Afghanistan so he could meet with Bin Laden and ask him to please don't blow anything else up. Hussein did everything in his power to convince the world that he had WMD's, and seems to have succeeded. Send in Colin Powell again. "Please mister Saddam, could you get rid of any WMD's? We're afraid of what might happen if al Queda happens upon them. They promised not to hurt us any more, but just in case...."
There is no diplomacy for terrorist groups. That's what bullets are for. Countries that harbor terrorists get a brand new government. The alternative is to let the terrorist groups become bold enough to pull off a 9-11 type of attack. Something that Bill Clinton was a master of.
Could you list for me the countries with which we are no longer allied as a result of the Iraq war?