I may be mistaken but wasn?t peace finally achieved with Russia when the US spent the Soviet Union into oblivion?
Now don?t get me wrong Yeru, I am not a pacifist and in the face of aggression I agree we cannot just allow a country to kill our citizens without a strong military response, such as invading Afghanistan was justified. I do not argue with that but how can you say that we were dealing with aggression on the part of Iraq? No WMD no terrorists proven to come out of Iraq, BEFORE we invaded that is. The boy was only trying finish the job his father should have done in the first gulf war without realizing that many things had changed since then and by invading Iraq we are only creating tens of thousands more terrorists in the Arab world.
Sometimes no military action is the best policy and as another example I will give you Libya, Sanctions, patience and time worked not violence.