Last time around at the presidential elections, we chipped in a good chunk of our hard-earned cash for McCain 2000. McCain's speech to the Council on Foreign Relations last week is worth taking the time to read in full. He deals with two important questions: Vietnam, and the exit strategy.

"Some of my colleagues invoked the specter of Vietnam as an argument to stay out of the Balkans in the 1990s, lest we be drawn into a mountain quagmire among allegedly ancient ethnic feuds. An exit strategy became more important than a victory strategy in the eyes of many, as if the most important goal were to minimize U.S. exposure rather than maximize the protection of U.S. interests and the promotion of American values."