"If it wasn't for the fact the alternative was so much worse, we'd all be celebrating the well-deserved execution of an overprivileged playboy at the head of an imperialist mass murder machine who risked the survival of civilization to maintain American hegemony and started a war that left millions dead."

Mr Campin, thank you.

It wasn't the person that got my heart all those years ago in high school, it was the mystique. I happen to agree with you--as I so often do. I would however correct a point of history: the CIA had assured the American president that Russia did not have the 'moxie' to back up the threat.

B