Carol C: What's satisfactory to Webster is satisfactory to me too.

I don't doubt for a minute, McGrath, that Israeli soldiers might have committed atrocities. As you point out, armies of all nations are capable of it and perhaps they often do. However, I am willing to give them the benefit of a doubt rather than just assume that they did. A full investigation is called for, I agree.

My comment regarding cynicism had less to do with with people, McGrath, but more to do with organizations and governments. Many posters to the Mudcat are so suspicious of governments, and of "big" business I wonder if either of them were to do something exlemplary, the posters would recognize that they did it!

DougR