Well Kendall:
That is a good question. Malthus would point out that one good outcome of the occupation of Iraq is that it will eventually be a way of reducing our 2.5 million inmates in jail. In stead of putting our surplus poplulation in jail, we can send them to a meaningless war to kill and be killed. In this way, the alpha males at the very top of the social pyramid will have less to fear from the alpha males they have shat upon from the top, and less to fear from an angry planit they have pillaged. Ask them, and they will tell you, "if the dead don't like it, LET THEM COMPLAIN!" I, of course, in my gentle faith, think there are better ways to act.
Cheers
Larry