Yes, altruism has given birth to political correctness. But, you can't kill them all. There are non combat elderly, women and children. At the present time, we cannot stop our "leaders" from acting stupidly. We still have a military presence in Japan and Germany. Pulling out of Iraq was a major blunder and Afghanistan will be the same. We won, only to hand off the countries to the enemy -- whatever you call them. It should be, we win, we take over, we maintain. We don't try to democratize them, or give them freedom. They can do that themselves to the extent we approve. The weird thing is, because of political correctness, we can kill and be killed, spend billions upon billions, but we are not allowed to reap the benefits of our blood and treasure. Call it P.C. or I would call it insanity. If we are not willing to take the benefits of our efforts we should stay home and let them kill each other. However, the only way we can do that is to close the borders so tight an alien flea won't get through, and help defend our allies such as England and Israel. If the jihadists know we truly mean it when we draw a red line and the consequences of crossing that line are worse than they can even imagine (which we are capable of) and you will see how quickly things settle down. We seem to be so afraid of what the world will say about us that we are willing to cut our own throats in order for them to smile at us. Why should we care what Europe or Asia thinks - look at their histories. Phew! Got that off my chest Thanks for the opportunity I.G.