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It's about time. Too bad others aren't being held accountable and having to face the music for their actions in this whole fiasco. But since I'm an optimist, I can only hope that their day will eventually come as well!

WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF IRAQ, and every place else in the world, and bring our troops home and protect our own country and borders before we are destroyed at home as the Globalists are planning. America First!

Wow Ed! I agree with you!

No, seriously Ed, I've meaning to say this for a long time. Sometimes I read your stuff and I say, wow, you know, I agree with that, because really I do. Like I agree we have to get out of Iraq and I agree we have to get out of most of the other places we are too.

Many on the right misguidedly believe we are in these foreign lands to help people, but the truth is, our leaders have used and abused our children serving in the military as a force not to benefit the American people but to protect American Corporations exploiting other countries populations.

Yes, we need to bring them home. Yes, we need to worry about our own homeland, but my world includes building bridges with other countries and all of us living interconnected.

When your ideas turn to the isolationist part of the JBS that is where you and I part company.

Coleen Ashly: I think that the term 'Isolationism' has been turned into what can be defined as a Pavlovian trigger word that conjures up the psychological image of an ostrich with its' head in the sand or worse. This attack on isolationism (which basically means minding our own business as a nation) was launched by the Internationalist Globalist big money crowd in the late 1930s when approx. 80% of Americans were isolationist (politically but not economically) to the extent that they wanted to keep us out of the European war that President Roosevelt was quite visibly trying to manuever us into. The result of this sentiment was the creation of the 800,000 member isolationalist national America First Committee (see: america first committee (on internet) headed up by many prominant Americans such as Charles Lindbergh and supported by up and coming leaders like John F. Kennedy and Gerald Ford. This committee would have been successful in keeping us out of WW-II had Roosevelt not been successful in bringing about the Pearl Harbor attack (Read: 'Day of Deceit' by Robert Stinnett (probably in local librarys) also see: JBS.org (search: pearl harbor). The 'big incident technique' from the sinking of the Maine and Lucitania to Pearl Harbor and the 9-11 attack were all created by big money interests in our government to stampede us into one war after another with no more concern than if they had simply overturned an ant hill. The last war we actually should have been in was the War of 1812, the rest were wars we were suckered into by our own leaders. We are all isolationists, I feel, for who of us upon returning to our homes, then walks down the street knocking on doors to find domestic disputes we can become involved in? Yet this is what our government has been doing for decades internationally and we have to stop it. Political Isolationism is the answer in the tradition of our founding leaders, The America First Committee, and common sense. -Ed Nemechek-760-246-8059

We are all isolationists, I feel, for who of us upon returning to our homes, then walks down the street knocking on doors to find domestic disputes we can become involved in?

Interesting when you put it that way, Ed, but there are plenty of people everywhere who are always getting involved in other people's business, even if they don't knock on doors. Aren't you getting involved in other people's business simply by being here offering your point of view? Don't you wish to change the minds of those who read what you write? Aren't you involved in a blog that mainly caters to folks who live about 160 miles away from you? Don't you belong to an organization that wants to get involved, somehow, with everyone who doesn't agree with them?

Barry Goldwater observed that what most people need is a "good leaving-alone", and while this notion appeals to most of us, we can all think of plenty of other people who shouldn't be left alone at all: thieves; pedophiles; murderers; drunk drivers, and a lot of other folks who evince some sort of anti-social and/or sociopathic behavior.

There's no such thing as isolationism, and there never has been, and there never will be, human nature being what it is.

Ed, if you're “isolationist” policy would prevent you from intervening in the event that one of your neighbors was beating the crap out of his wife, abusing a child, neglecting an animal, screaming fire, needed medical attention, was elderly and needed a hand, or if you saw a stranger lurking around your vacationing neighbors home (or any of the other instances that call for decent, neighborly, civically-minded people to act) then, respectfully, I'd have to say "Thank goodness you don't live anywhere near my neighborhood!"

phalarope & LTOR: I essentially agree with you as long as your policies are kept within our national borders. Searching the world for noble causes to sacrifice our wealth and lives for is a never ending dead end street that is destroying America as our founding leaders repeatedly warned it would. Add to that the condition that our present leaders are obviously anti-American agents planning our destruction by bankrupting our country through foreign aid give- aways and no-win foreign wars, etc.,and we have an ongoing conspiracy destroying our whole way of life based on the propaganda line of foreign intervention to supposedly save the world. We have to quit being suckered into our own destruction as we have been for decades. The old saying:"charity begins at home" seems appropriate here. Also, there is a big difference between responding to a domestic neighbors' emergency and walking around the neighborhood looking for emergencies which will eventually bankrupt your own household.-Ed Nemechek.

Much as I hate to admit it, Ed, I agree with some of what you say, sometimes. I definitely agree that America is in the clutches of those who would bankrupt us and destroy a way of life that both you and I enjoy. It's no secret, and it's happening every single day in front of our eyes. I guess what we disagree on is the extent of it, the definition of "destruction", and the cure.

phalarope: I seems that most people agree on what the problem is but have many divergent solutions that usually make the problem worse. Our problem in America is BIG GOVERNMENT oozing into our lives and across the world like the seemingly unstoppable Blob in the old science fiction movie. Most peoples' solution to the problems of big government is to form another corrective committee or bureau that only makes the government even bigger and more destructive. The only solution to the incredibly evil condition of big government is to reduce its' physical size about 80% in the case of the federal government, and on down to the local level. Government should be so small that it can't intrude into our private lives and our tax bills so small that nobody would really care. It's so bad today that our ELECTED representatives admit that they can do NOTHING to stop blatent abuse of citizens by government bureau empires running rampant over the constitutional rights of citizens. The only solution is to cut off governmant tax money and reduce the size of government instead of trying to get the government to finance every pet project somebody has to supposedly save the earth or whatever. By taking government money we are digging our own graves. -Ed Nemechek