I'm so scared...scared of the entire world. Used to be I at least felt a certain sense that even despite all the problems we did have as a nation, we at least had some basic great things. And this man is responsible for tearing so many of them to shreds.
"It is the decisive ideological struggle of our time."
Yes, but against whom? When we sacrifice so many of what we hold as standards and ideals of America in order to spread the ideals of America, what are we working so hard to spread anymore?

Your points are brilliant, and this is a simply brilliant post. You have an impressive mind for political analysis! Only one part I take issue with:

"I would be interested in hearing the percentage of our troops that are stationed within 30 miles of the capital. Something tells me we'd see a correlation. And if there is one, then putting even more troops into that area would be a big mistake."

Correlation does not necessarily imply cause...though of course there is some degree of cause and effect at work here, of course, I doubt it's the majority.

But then, you weren't writing a published statistically sound analysis, just a blog, so I'll let you slide. ;)

This was wonderful reading. Thanks!