Bona fide American hero

Ok, I'll take the bait. Ron, you are a perfect example of how a "little" knowledge, along with a warped perspective of our country, can lead to such a distastefully backwards view. PNAC is a privately owned and operated organization that promotes their own views of how the U.S. should shape foreign policy. The do not represent the absolute truth but the truth according to the way they see it. The half truths from which you base most of your posts are often partly correct but you manage to only use them to promote things the way you see them. Yes, the U.S. did finance much of the military buildup of Iraq just as they had previously done for Iran. This was in keeping with the belief of the U.S. government at that time that we needed to help all parties in the region to maintain a balance of power due to the ethnic and religious differences. To say that we encouraged Iraq to invade Kuwait is way out there! I agree, the U.S. had often positioned themselves in no win situations. Afganistan is certainly one. But to promote an anti American viewpoint on Veterns Day using half truths, when we should be thanking God for the brave souls that have provided us with the very opportunity to speak our opinions in this forum, well for the lack of a better word, you said it, politically incorrect.