That's a very sweeping and general indictment, guest Dwight. Having never watched the program Friends, I can't speak to it's popularity. In my circle of friends and associates the primary topic for a couple of weeks now has been the abomination of these acts as they have been revealed. And how to get rid of Dubya so someone else can begin to try to make some repairs.

There have certainly been low-points in America's worldwide reputation within the lifetime of many of us. Korea and Vietnam, for example. About the only other time in the last 100 years when the U.S. reputation was in such shreds in the world community as it is now was after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We killed a lot more there, but in this wired global village, it takes fewer deaths to acquire the same reputation.

I can see George doing the comparison now: Let's see: Hiroshima and Nagasaki, about 150,000 dead within the year after the war, but only about 10,000 Iraqi's killed so far. What a relief! Only 10,000 dead!

SRS