No question about it, we should learn from Genghis Khan and Tamerlane. If there is a town or city where our troops or allies are attacked, that town or city disappears. Or better yet, we use a neutron bomb, kill everything living and leave the structures standing, ready for expropriation. We'll show Genghis a thing or two. We will build a world of perfect order, managed by fear, with high tech surveillance that will have old Felix Dzherzinsky turning green with envy in his grave. Hobbes will give us a thumbs up. The dream that was America will be another utopian scheme in the dustbin of history. Sounds good, doesn't it? John ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html