4Salt,

Yes . I subscribe to the Goldwater theory on using military force. When you decide to use it use it all and decimate the enemy. I think the doctrine that Powell subscribes to will not work in the Islamic world in the long term. Wolfies influence has been this; Osama wanted to unite the Islamic world against us , he failed, so much so that today we recieve intel from every Islamic state against Al Queada. He wanted to crash our economy he failed. at the end of the day all he could do was send a ham handed tape to try and scare people into voting for capitulation. That did not happen because Powell is strong statesman. It happened because his statesmanship was backed up with some guys that would bring it on otherwise.