> Aaron,
>  
> at> I'm confident that our military could have easily protected 
thousands of
> at> Hutus from a bunch of machete-weilding punks, but when you're 
getting
> at> blown away in the oval office, it's hard to care about a bunch of 
crazy
> at> Africans.
>  
> Before blubbering around like that it pays to check facts, this took 
me less
> than 10 minutes:
>  
> a) The Rwanda genocide occured in 1994, it ended July 14 of that year.
> b) The Clinton-Lewinsky affair started in 1995. Her internship 
started during
>    July of that year.
>  
> Further, there's a limit on the number of wars the USA can fight 
concurrently
> ... in 1994 the USA was involved in:
>  
> * Iraqi No-Fly Zone Enforcement Operations
> * First Intervention in the Somali Civil War
> * Bosnian War
> * Intervention in Haiti
>  
> Plus American troops are neither trained nor have the equipment to 
fight a
> Brousse-war on the African continent, certainly not close to the 
equator.
>  
> There's a limit to "the right of might".

While the US can and did handle small skirmishes - including the Bush 
minor's conquest of Iraq - if it gets involved in a major conventional 
war with either Russia or China it's going to get its butt kicked.  The 
reason is that the US has neither the industrial capacity nor the 
transportation capacity to support a major conventional war, and it 
would take probably a decade or more to rebuild those capabilities.

Note that for the Iraq fracas, Saddam allowed the US nearly a year to 
build up supply dumps for the 2003 invasion, a competent leader would 
not have allowed that
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