Good idea, Bagpuss. Understood, flattop. Imagine if we used the incredible sabre-rattling power we have to enforce that qualification and in so doing, all the players had to shut town any internal terrorist ops in order to qualify!! Ethics at gunpoint, wodda concept!!

I have a simple burning wish -- I don't want to raze any towns, or rape any women, or make any parking lots. I just want the root andbranch of a complex invisible network identified and vaporized.

Sounds awful crude, but I am a little upset and depressed about recent events.

As most of us are, Charles, you seem to be flailing rhetorically above, a little disjointed, and I sympathize. But I don't agree with you about the emptiness and hypocrisy -- I think you are leaving out a lot of data!!

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