Mike Thompson: “What concerns me most about all of this is the credibility of the United States of America. I am beginning to wonder if…”

“What concerns me most about all of this is the credibility of the United States of America. I am beginning to wonder if we have any credibility in any part of the world anymore. Following the disastrous U.N. lead, and to a certain extent the NATO lead there, not getting them to go along with sound policies and lifting the arms embargo with their cooperation, one sad tale after another, we have gone down a road of totally participating in the discrediting of the United Nations, of NATO, and our own country. I think that the first step toward rectifying that certainly is not putting our own troops in there, but letting the people defend themselves, which is all they say they want to do, lifting that arms embargo, stepping back and saying, 'It is your problem. You solve it. You take care of it.' That is what they deserve to do. We cannot afford to stand by, through our policies, and let this murderous activity go on, and say to the world that we, the strongest power in the world, supposedly are going to countenance that sort of thing and not use the many resources, short of troops on the ground, that we have, to do something about such terrible activities.”