I generally refrain from using the prefix B.S. -- I simply do not like it. I gnerally don't think that what I'm posting ought to go under that flag.

But why is B.S. a valid way to respond to my taking note of what I heard Mr. Harvey say last week?? I absolutely hate to see the idea of using these weapons of mass destruction floated out there as a trial balloon of some sort by a recognized mouthpiece for the conservative positions.

There was a time, not very long ago, when assassination of the opponents heads of state, and their henchmen, was completely (pretty much) off the table--. But now it happens every day. We let Hitler go on and on. And on and on and on.

Also, the idea of suicide warriors giving up their precious lives on a publicized regular basis, for the cause, was, seemingly, confined to high profile political statements of the relatively few Kama Kazee (spelling?) pilots who flew missions for Japan in World War 2. I'm sure there were others who gave their lives for the "big picture" as they saw it in their minds, but I am reminded of someones idea I heard once: "People will die for an idea, provided that idea isn't quite clear to them." During Viet Nam many of us decided the ideas being put forth by the leaders as being the ones worth losing our lives for, simply, just were not worth that in the face of the rather complete wrongheadedness of that misbegotten venture.

Sorry if I've drifted my own thread!

Art Thieme