The current Secretary General of the United Nation has invigorated the peace process globally with the settlement of issues between North and South Korea by allowing the movement across borders of family to visit with each other.
Before Bush, the USA was on a track of 'Keeping the Peace.' It is where the USA military belongs.
The 'task' of capturing and killing Osama bin Laden and achieving justice for those murdered on September 11, 2001 still evades the USA. The justice of that day should have never been misdirected into a wrongful war for profits. The survivors of September 11th, their families and friends are still waiting to find justice and the day when the fear of such terrorists will never be an issue again on American soil.
While we have an obligation to maintain a military, the definition of it's responsiblities is more important than 'the ready' force we actually contain. The USA has proven to be more than able to rise to the needs of a military demand of justified war.
A ready military is more an adjunct to missions of peacekeeping than that of attack and overwhelm an enemy. The predessors of the American Dream have done a very good job at harnessing the understanding of other countries in trade relations and ambitions of international cooperation such as The International Space Station. We need to rally around the definition of our military as an extention of diplomacy rather than war. The world of people and the biotic balance that is Earth is too delicate to 'toy' or allow the 'toying' with of USA military might.
Our future lawmakers need to 'tighten up' the understanding of when and when not to use our military. The Executive Branch needs more loss of warring clout than The War Powers Act. It needs close ties to a sub-branch agency of the CIA/FBI that monitors the 'intent' of the Oval Office in it's presentations of information to the Legislative Branch.
