Carol,

Your opinion is one that is taken by many people: that the US involvement in other countries leads to retribution.

If every country left every other country alone then the world would not be a safer place. There are still people that muder other people for whatever reason whether on the street in Dallas or one country attacking another. You cannot reason with murderers like Bin Laden. Their goal is to kill people in the US. It's too late to reason with terrorists.

The only thing you can do is try to protect yourself and other countries. As a world leader that is what the US is trying to do.

If you let the murders have atomic and chemical weapons they are going to use them.

-Richie