Yo, DougR. Beating someone's brains out should not be confused with the concept of peace. It just means that as the victor, you get the spoils. Had the United States and its allies spent more time promoting peace after WWI then I'm suggesting that there wouldn't have been WWII, Korea, Hungary, Vietnam, Bosnia, Kosova, Kuwait, the June Wars, the Middle East, Afganistan, etc. As the world's super power, we have had and continue to have a responsibility to lead this planet toward peaceful coexistence, even when it may be in conflict with the spoils and profits of war. So, I'm stickin with my premise, DougR, that one crappy war just leads to another. You can't take one out of context but have to look at the pattern of failed policies that, bottom line, have failed mankind. Peace. Bobert