> EY: > > If you are just talking only about war-fighting, > and calling the US > > barbarian, surely you realize that if we were > truly barbarian, by say > > Mongol Invasion standards, the wars would be over. > The Iraqis and all the > > Afghan resistance would be dead, and any survivors > would be serving as our > > slaves. *Now it's not your fault that it hasn't quite worked out that way yet, Eric. But the Mongols, too, didn't exactly kill indiscriminately anyone who chanced on their way. To be sure, there was plenty of killing and looting, but the real goal was conquest and political domination. Perhaps this could sound familiar. O.K. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html