greg: Listening to folks on here greatly slowed my momentum (inspired, I learned today on NPR, only by primitive, Freudian impulses: phallic images and all that) toward support for armed intervention. I was all against it until yesterday. Nothing has changed of course, except the circumstances. We are where we are (by a long string of great failures), and I'm on board. Reading people's opinions on mudcat gave me a lot to think about after 9/11, and probably affected my opinions quite a bit. So, no, I do not think it was all useless "Yes," "No," "Yes," "No," "Yes," "No," "Yes," "No" babbling.

I was ready to tease gnu today about the Canadian government's decision to stay out, but I've decided that was not necessarily the wrong decision, either. I'll avoid thread drift on that one.

(btw, I did thank you long ago for refering me to facing the atlantic about six months ago, but I doubt you caught it. It was a great read.)

Dan