Amos, you rhetoricly sully the antique richness of Sepia tones. But thats OK, it makes a point.

LH
Suppose if all the resources spent on all of our "little" (wars be they direct wars or indirect) had been spent constructively by building up the people whose interests we wanted to align with ours.
We still would have won but with much less death and revenge.
Vikings were the nomads of the sea and rivers. Some of their gangs were, how should I say, too invested in a self interest for anyone's good.


Dear folks who are right of Rush Limbaugh.
Anyone who is an attentive student in the bipartisan approach that the Health care reform bill was begun can see it started in the middle and went so far right that the current reform serves Insurance companies to make many more billions of dollars than they make today. But thats not good enough if Obama were allowed to get any credit for it. Remember its more important to make this issue his Watterloo than help sick people.