Well, I'm glad you don't live next door, Steve. :-) I would have an injured nose, and you would be under arrest, and that wouldn't be helpful to either one of us.

It's not actually the soldiers I am criticizing, so my choice of words may have given the wrong impression. It's the war policy makers at the top I am criticizing. The World in general has noticed how loath the American military is to risk casualties in a conflict. This has nothing to do with a lack of courage on the part of the American soldier whatsoever! It has to do with your politicians who are terrified of losing public support at home if too many body bags come back. They are haunted by Vietnam. Accordingly, they devise high tech ways of massacring 3rd World opponents from a safe distance. It is this that strikes the World in general as cowardly.

This does not mean American troops are cowards, and I have never wished to imply that they are, although you may think I have. The "warriors" I was referring to are the armchair warriors in the White House. I am implying that the American political leadership is lacking in moral courage and lacking in moral responsibility.

George Bush is about as inexperienced when it comes to war as I am, but he has no compunction about killing non-Americans whatsoever, and for no good reason whatsoever.

- LH