Just a thought that occurred to me as I read the post plus comments. What started as a Clinton/liberal "we are so powerful that we should save everybody from all those little wars." was doubled down by the Bush/Chenny "we are so powerful we can remove bad men and make the world right" has basically and predictably failed. Our problem is nothing has taken it's place. So we seem to be arguing between this failed policy and an equally failed policy of isolationism. So where are the big picture thinkers in this administration, it maybe its biggest failing so far.