John McCain is willing to alow America's military to remain in the middle east for another hundred years. With the difference in the amount of time only, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee agree. Only Ron Paul offers a different answer.

America lacks the conviction to fight a war like a war should be fought. Look at some of the battles that occured in the Old Testament and compare them with the way wars are fought today. Most of those battles did not spare civilians, if they were in the war zone. The enemy was the enemy regardles of whether it was a man, woman or child.

Today children are being recruited to strap on explosives and walk among crowds to be detonated. What kind of mindset allows that to happen? What kind of mindset in those children allows them to be used, knowing they will soon die? Answer: It is the mindset of a group of people who have the conviction to win the war, but not the means. America, on the other hand, has the means to win a war, but not the conviction. There has never in history been a nation or empire with the means to more quickly win a war than we now have at our disposal. We have weapons that can kill the enemy but not harm the infrastructure, we have smart bombs and missles that can surgically take out a small target while leaving the surrounding area un-touched. We have the greatest technology in the history of the world at our disposal, but lack the conviction to use it. John McCain says he is willing to stay in Iraq for another hundred years if necessary. John McCain will not stay in Iraq or anywhere else for another hundred years, so that is worthless rhetoric

There is an alternative to either fighting a winning war that can end sooner rather than later and staying in Iraq for another hundred years.

Ron Paul has offered that alternative, and has been ridiculed for taking his position. He is maintaining that if we withdraw our troops, not only from Iraq, but from other nations around the world where fighting has not occured in fifty years or more, that we will not only probably not have any other attacks against this country, but we will have, here at home, the strongest, most well equipped military in the world. Who would dare attack such a strong nation?

There is only two alternatives that we can accept to our foreign intervention. One is that we go in to win and win at what ever the cost, or we allow those nations that have a quarrel among themselves to solve their own problems. George Washington told his America to avoid foreign entanglements. That advice is as timely today as it was in 1789.

If an identifiable nation attacks us, we should be prepared to wipe that nation off of the face of the earth. If some loose cannons from a region that are not identified with a country attack us, we should deal with them the same way we deal with a nation who attacks us; find them and wipe them off of the face of the earth. But to attack a nation who has no national connection with those who carried out the attack on 9/11 makes no sense whatever. That is what we did in Iraq.

It's time to bring the troops home from Iraq. It's time to bring the troops home from Japan, Germany, France, Bosnia, Korea, and even Afghanastan, as well as anyplace else we have troops stationed in this world. Let's have our troops protect our borders for a change, not the borders of countries who would just as soon see us all dead.