(1st timer) The Powell Doctrine states we fight to clearly obtain concrete objectives with more than enough resources to do so. Alas, even in a democracy without a draft, the search for someone so smart as to reject the idea that we just do 'something/anything' and then--what the heck--muddle through decades of blowback and consequences, (such as: build the ramps so our shattered warrior kids can be wheeled into their houses.) Say again why we should protect Mecca and Medina on behalf of the Saudis?