"Better safe than sorry."

Martin, don't you mean "better war than peace"? I'm sure that's how Haliburton et. al. look at it.

But not the families of dead and wounded service members, nor all the "collateral" brown people who have been, and continue to be, slaughtered.

Yeah, I know, the insurgents are doing most of the killing by this time. But would it be happening if the US had minded its own business and remained focused on the conflict with Al-Quida?