>Are you really saying that we didn't stop this war because we lack 'moral
>authority'? We lack actual authority, which means that various
>wonderful plans
>we might imagine to encourage democratic flowering in our own country and even
>in neighboring countries are dead letters. If anything, there's too much
>utopian imagining about how the U.S. could 'help' people in other
>countries and
>not enough discussion of how to put in place a government here that
>won't level
>said countries, and I don't mean elect Democrats.
Excellently put. Yes.
Doug