[VioletlightHeron]

Kim, I was referring to Sudan and Rwanda as the US having no strategic national interests. My opinion is the European countries have their own strategic interests and when it isnt in their interest to intervene in countries like Rwanda and Sudan they want the US to take on the burden of dealing with the problem. France, in my opinion, didnt want the war in Iraq to happen because they had business dealings with Saddam in the UN Oil for Food program and weren't willing to risk losing those connections. That's their business, countries do that every day. The US's relations with some countries (France, Russia, China for a couple examples) are always going to be more "correct" (diplo speak for doing business on a tit for tat, business relationship) than our relations with Germany, Britain and Canada.