"Have Jim and Dick ever really cared about collateral damage when they are locked horns in battle...????"
Can't speak for Dick - yes I have.
I have already attempted to deal with this problem through the moderators on this site after being targeted by abusive hate-postings - feel free to check.
I really don't have another way of handling it other than to reply in kind.
It's one of the problems of expressing unpopular views on an open forum.
My apologies to Will, and to all concerned - as far as I can avoid it, it will not happen again - apart from anything else, I regard topics such as this far too important to allow them to descend into slanging matches
Jim Carroll