Originally Posted by djplong

I have to be honest. I would have trouble with killing innocent civilians, as a nuke would do.

I do not want to reduce myself to their subhuman level.

I will admit, thought, that sometimes my attitude is to get us out of the Middle East and make an announcement as we leave.

"GO ahead. Feed on yourselves. Let your people live in filth and poverty while you argue over who has a bigger piece of the catbox you live in. But know this. You've seen our planes and missiles run through your country at our whim. Your stone age tribes can't do anything about them. If you try to attack us again, you will see more destruction - and it will keep on coming for as long as we feel like it. We won't bother with occupying your country because we don't want it in the first place - it's not worth a drop of our blood. We can afford it - the costs don't start escalating until we try to live in your godforsaken part of the world. I wouldn't want a single soldier soiling his boot trying to bring peace to a land that has, for so many hundreds of years, adamantly refuse to even want it."

Sorry - I'm in a bit of a mood today