I think the compassion's still here, too. I just gets hard to find in the midst of all the bickering. You start a thread about being afraid for your daughter, and it winds up being a flame-fest on the war in general, because that's what some people may really want to discuss...or know how to discuss. It's the 'rut' they like to be in, and nobody ever challenges them for it. It seems impossible to drag discussions back from the generalities of peoples 'hot buttons' to the specific feelings of one person. People on soap-boxes are usually a lot louder and more persistent than others. I don't think human feelings matter to a bunch of people. For some of us, they do, and we're still here too.