I realize it is an idea divorced from all reality...

[Adsos Letter]

but, if only the decision-makers on either side were required to stand in the path of the destruction their decisions create...


I am 53 years old, and I am so sick and tired of the endless cycles of bloodshed and inhumanity that have plagued our world, even in my own brief lifetime.

So much death, so much suffering.

And we don't even see the half of it.

[knowbody0]

1. war brings war

find me a "terrorist" who has not been terrorized.

[Donnachaidh]

3. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. n/t

[EFerrari]

2. My grandmother used to say these old guys should be put in a room

and forced to fight it out with their fists instead of sending kids off to be blown up. She was right, of course. And she was an officer's wife.

[LeftishBrit]

4. You are right.

[virgogal]

5. I'm old enough to remember WWII and Korea. It will never end,ever.