Lighter... "in any sinister sense." I assume we both allude to the same scenario, that of the sinking of a US ship would spur a declaration of war by the US?

In any case, it did not. And such could also be seen to be strategic on the part of the US in the training of naval forces. Agian, it's all conjecture. 20-20 hindsight. In the very end, it's all quite sad because, as I have said many times in this forum for some ten years... the rich subjugate the poor... war is their game for their profit.

Lest we forget... has more than one meaning in my books.

And that's enough for me on this thread as it, nay, *I*, have drifted far too far from the topic intended. My apologies Kendall.