The WeatherMax wrote: >In regard to the merits of bombing the U.S.A. for assorted >offenses, I'd agree (as I've said before) that in certain cases >(e.g., Kissinger/Nixon's Christmas bombing of Vietnam) it would >have been defensible, if there had been anybody big enough to do >it. Nothing like spicing up one's realpolitik with a soupcon of surrealism. Or vice versa. Max, I still love you. Take two giraffes and call me in the harmonica. regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm