Hell Jeri, I want to have your baby! Your ability to analyze an issue without ever letting irrational emotion cloud your clearheaded thinking is an all too rare commodity these days. I am a great admirer of your objectivity.

How big a step is it from "we have a right to kill people in other countries we don't like" (war) to "we have a right to kill people in our own country we don't like?"

Evidently not very big. Wasn't that what happened in Waco, Texas? Surely I'm not the only one who was horrified at the images streaming across the TV screen of an American offensive launched by American troops on American soil against American citizens.