[news] Imperialist Whining

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

Two kinds of imperial whining have come to pervade foreign policy discussion.  
One relates to Bush's overextending the military so they cannot deploy to other  
places desperately needing their lethal capacity.

Others fixate on "American credibility". If we withdraw, an October 22 2006  
Washington Post editorial declared, we forego our "moral obligation". After all  
the US military and Iraqi sacrifices, the US must not allow a collapse, which  
would occur "without the prop of 140,000 [now 170,000] US troops".

  


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