re: #14 palmerskiss

there does not seem to be any indication nor admittance that in regards to iraq, america does not have a strong foundation to criticize other nations aggressive foreign policies.

There is no such indication, true, but that’s an interesting opinion and thanks for raising it. I am not loving war, I am proposing that Putin is hostile and constantly on the warpath and that it is necessary to get in his way, even at risk of escalation. Are you responding that America should not get involved because of Iraqi blood on its hands? In that case how does America defend its interests and friends from aggression, will that always be the rejoinder? The Iraq invasion was removing a longstanding dictator, and there are many parties to the bloodshed - is consensus about America in Iraq so cut-and-dried as to warrant comparison with Russia now? I can understand the point, but it leaves us very stuck with whatever Putin does next.