Perhaps, McGrath, but there are two important counterweights to those bozos. First, the US is really not as invincible as some would like to believe. There are armies that are as technologically advanced, if not more so (Britain, Germany, potentially China) if not as large or equiped for air warfare.   Second, our forces are sincerely not structured to do what that plan asked for. Our professional army is too small for the plan. Heck, we're calling up reserves again just for a 3rd world country like Iraq.

That's what's called a non-repeatable event in US political terms. Call up reserves, ordinary citizens, once too often and this democracy will turn on you no matter how popular you started out to be. It would take a Pearl Harbor-9/11 scale event WITH a clear smoking gun for the American people to tolerate another war and the calling up of even more reserves under Bush. Bush would never get another authorization under the Wars Powers Act from Congress without that. You only get one unprovoked war like Iraq.

So mark my words. News that the carriers are moving toward yet another target without clear political consensus would start whispers of impeachment even amoung Republicans. Cold comfort for you since I doubt you believe it, but it's true.