From: Peace "Instead of wars, when countries want to do battle their leaders should go--and may I suggest machine guns at fifteen paces?"

that's one of the most sensible comments I've seen on any forum for a while! I couldn't agree more - when the leaders want to do this or that, you never find them actually going out and fighting for it themselves. Pink Floyd had a very good song on their album "The Final Cut" (1983). It was about the need to build a kind of retirement home for 'incurable tyrants, colonial despots and wasters' where they could take tea on the lawn and play their war games out of harm's way.