Jeri, I don't see anything in my remarks saying I was unquestionably right or wrong about whether we will be going to war. I was assaulting the way the discussion was cast from the outset. I have to believe that change is possible, that nothing is inevitable in a democracy -- my disappointment is when everyone starts thinking like a cog in a machine. Of course, I am disappointed all the time, but that is the way it goes. I think that even if there is a war, the decisions have to be made in the teeth of protest, that historians cannot say that free people acquiesed in their own demise. Then again, I take the long view.

yours, Peter T.