Invasions were off the table because the vast majority of American troops were (and are) busy dying in the Middle East, and diplomacy is for wimps (not the manly men Republicans vote for).
The result: Bush has been busily trying to pretend that Latin America doesn't exist ever since the failed Venezuelan coup.
Imperial overstretch in action?
Teh US never needed the army fr insurgency.. the fact that they did not do it this time speaks very well of Bush father.. Bush son or Cheney had not the people to do it.
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
