Well, Sallaamaleikum to you too, Doug R -- if you ask, I'll bet you'd find out it is the preferred path to Beyond, much better than being separated from your current mortal illusion by a pound and a half of Lockheed Martin's very best! :>)

Wonder if we couldn't get all our ex-colonist powers -- the Portuguese, Spanish, Germans, French and British -- to stand up and 'fess their wrong doing, with a call for a resurrection of the spirit of self-rule throughout the lands, after we get the nukes, biochemicals and guns outta the way? It might clean up a lot of thehistorical melo-dramatization.   Back burner for now, but it might be a helluva PR job, especially if we can get the City of the Vatican to chime in with a few mea culpae!! :>)

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