This just in.

Officials at the Red Cross announce that a new strategy has been found to overcome the tragic trend toward war at the Mudcat Cafe, an international scene of longstanding strife.

The Red Cross is recommending that in any discussion, to keep all sides at peace, albeit an uneasy one, thoughtful participants need only inseert either or both of these words, or a variant thereof, in each paragraph posted:

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Said Danisha Dogooder, an official spokepserson of the Red Cross in Wangdonesia, "It turned out to be a simple thing anyone could have thought of! Just think the bloodshed that can be avoided now! Let the healing begin!"

Participants were doubtful, at press time, that the problem could be solved in any fashion, much less by an idea so slight as to nearly escape attention.

However, said Ms. Dogooder, "You have to try it to see how powerfully it can work. We realize that it's greatest impact will only be possible when used by creative-minded people of vision, but it is a tool that can't help but improve things even in the hands of complete.... I'm sorry, we here at the Red Cross haven't come up yet with a word that means [idiots] but is universally acceptable. We are still working on that one!"

The Red Cross received a large grant to study this problem, but promises to donate any profits accumulating as a result to the Cafe for its ongoing humanitarian work toward peace in our time in all the world's trouble spots.