[Noah]

Well, I would like to point out that it is the responsibility of the United states to uphold the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. That document gaurantees basic human rights for all people, and in recent years the trend has been more and more to enforce it, including sending intervention into areas where it was not wanted. I believe that it is the responsibility of the United states as the nation with the most available military to intervene. (10 Army divisions, 12 carrier battle groups, 12 air force fighter wings, and 3 marine expeditionary forces, according to January 2003 issue of Proceedings) On the other hand, this should be done as part of an international force. Only with the support of the international community should such a thing be undertaken, and that is not something that Bush had when he began deploying troops to the middle east.

On the plus side, it looks like the pentagon might finally get to test its stated ability to fight two wars independant of each other at the same time... bets on how long until the first announced deployment of manpower/equipment to N. Korea?