Military Power has a proper role , I will let you disccuss what this role should be even though you have an abysmal ignorance on the subject.
If you think that military power equates to greatness, then it is you whose ignorance is abysmal.
The use for military power is defense. The Iraq was was offense. No American in the US was threatened by any Iraqi. Not even close.
If the US did not have the power to invade Iraq, that would have been a good thing, because the war has resulted in the buggering of the dollar, the displacement of over a million Iraqis, and the death of over 3000 Americans. It has made the Persian Gulf a dangerous place, and that has resulted in the rise in the price for oil, and because of this, the rise in the price for everything else.
Inflation due to the incompetence, stubbornness and warmongering of Juniorbush is stealing money from everyone's pockets. Only the few American companies that have figured out how to steal money in Iraq have benefitted.
A gun can be a useful tool, but not when one uses it to blow his own toes off, just because a few thieves that are selling bullets are making a profit from it.
No matter how hard one tries, no one can be harmed by learning a language. Not even an utterly useless one, like Klingon.
You can point out to me if you will the "great" but Weak if you please , but _JS has just made an interesting point, that "great" and "Moral" should not be confused , I accept this point as true , I think the USA is "great" and in some respects "moral" tho I have some complaints on the Morality of some of the stuff that has been happening .
To compare Apples to apples lets compare the great to the great in terms of Morality.
During our lifetimes there have been three superpowers the US the USSR and China.
Even though China still has a smaller economy than Japan , we are discussing greatness and even if military power is all they have it is not inconsiderable on that account alone.
Lets compare the Marshal plan to the scouring of Eastern Europe with all the spoils being shipped to the USSR includeing whole factorys . Without getting into whether the USSR had a right to those spoils , were they MORE moral to be takeing than giveing?
China might be helpfull to other nations in the future when they can afford it , time will tell.
If the USA did not have the power to invade Iraq Saddam Hussein would possess Kuait , Iraq and probly a chunk of Iran , why not think this? That is exactlyu what he was trying to acheive.
By now Saddam Hussein would be bombarding Tel Aviv quite often , or were Dr. Bulls cannons going to be turned around?
Without our interference the swamps at the Euphraties would have all been drained and the Kurds would have all been killed.
When well prepared Saddam would have chosen to either invade Saudi Arabia or Iran , whichever looked weaker at the time , without the freindship of the US how strong would Saudi Arabia really look?
