I quite agree. It is sad but true. In the past If you were an Ally of the U.S. you would recieve the full support If you were attacked by another country. Now it seems the reward of being an Ally is to have the U.S. president wave his finger at the enemy and Say" Stop being a bully" and instead of dispatching the military might of their armed forces, they send Planes full of band-aids and food. What it says to the world is that the United States of America is no longer the superpower it once was, and is too scared to pick a fight with a recently re-juvinated USSR. The balance of power is definately shifting, and Russia is flexing it's muscle and shining light to the fact that It is now in control in that part of the region, no matter what any other country says or threatens to say. Unless the Draft is brought back in the U.S., I don't think that they (the U.S.) could survive economically another military campaign...