Chuckles,
I forgot one other point. You said “Foreign affairs is one thing. Your talking military affairs here. ”
Military affairs are but one aspect of foreign affairs. While it is without question an exceptionally important aspect it is not the only one and focusing on it exclusively to the detriment of the other aspects will entail the same type of damage and failure as ignoring military affairs and only focusing on the other aspects would. A nation that ignored it’s economic affairs to focus solely on it’s military will lose just as surely as one which focuses only on it’s economy while ignoring it’s military.
It is very important to look at a situation in the context of it’s total position in and effect on the foreign affairs of a nation and not just it’s military one. That’s another part of my concern about the nature of and preparation for our engagement with Iran. It will not happen solely in a military vacuum in the middle east. The repercussions will be economic, diplomatic, political and cultural and they will be felt globally. We need to be prepared for that and honestly consider the price.
