Quote Originally Posted by EnglishAssassin
...What we really need is a local strong man we can arm to the teeth and get to impose some sort of rule in these areas. Hmm, sounds familiar.
Indeed.

So, it's your opinion that, 4 years from now (10 years after 9-11), we will have come full circle to conventional diplomatic solutions for the world's hot-spots (Africa, middle-east, etc)? This, after trying yet again, to reinvent the foreign policy wheel?

If so, I cannot say I disagree. But what a sad prospect, after so many lives lost, money spent, effort expended.