On Saturday, April 19, 2003, at 07:26 AM, RRSounds at aol.com wrote: > Mention Rwanda, and our eyes glaze over. > How about Nigeria? Or Timor? Or Bangladesh? Sri Lanka? Bali? It is worth noting that your post though wise and thoughtful assumes that our country is always wrong and all it's people are stupid. That is Not possible and is certainly wrong. Is it good politics to call your ally a moron? Jim "Lots of people claimed that the war in Iraq would take away from the war on terrorism, but it is exactly the war on terrorism. A country held in sway by an army of terorrists in masks. Many of them from other countries. A country actively supporting and paying for terror in their region and looking for 'Reach". A country with more arms than people. And speaking of that, in Palestine they claim that they use bombvests, because they have no jets or artillery. In Iraq they had machineguns, grenade launchers and artillery as well as mig Jets, mortars, missiles and high explosives, available in every locale. But they also seem to have had a lively and well organized bombvest industry. What is THEIR excuse?