Madam Speaker, I have a few questions for my colleagues.

What if our foreign policy of the past century is deeply flawed and has not served our national

security interests?

What if we wake up one day and realize that the terrorist threat is a predictable consequence

of our meddling in the affairs of others and has nothing to do with us being free and

prosperous?

What if propping up repressive regimes in the Middle East endangers both the United

States and Israel?

What if occupying countries like Iraq and Afghanistan and bombing Pakistan is directly

related to the hatred directed toward us?

What if someday it dawns on us that losing over 5,000 American military personnel in the

Middle East since 9-11 is not a fair tradeoff for the loss of nearly 3,000 American citizens,

no matter how many Iraqi, Pakistani and Afghan people are killed or displaced?

What if we finally decide that torture, even if called enhanced interrogation technique,

is self-destructive and produces no useful information and that contracting it out to a third-world

nation is just as evil?

What if it is finally realized that war and military spending is always destructive to

the economy?

What if all wartime spending is paid for through the deceitful and evil process of inflating

and borrowing?

What if we finally see that wartime conditions always undermine personal liberty?

What if conservatives who preach small government wake up and realize that our interventionist

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