Sorry to see this thread devolve into a pissing match stretching over borders and oceans, and I helped it along I'm afraid, I'd much rather be discussing chord runs and guitar quality, but I get a bit pumped when my country is being run down the sewer pipe.

Fionn, to assume that I am ignorant because I am an American is the utmost insult, but it's just another case of 'America bashing' that we folks here have come to accept. The fact that the U.S. can do no right is pretty much status quo around here. This, and I think history will bear me out, and the fact that our intervention is, and has been sought out to settle the hash of more than one conflagration, unsettles me. To further assume that I could care less what is happening in the world is also ridiculous.

Clifton