[mmercier]

>> Mercifully drowning men, women, and children. What a pal.

I have relatives in the Louisiana bayou.

And I said "merciful in the extreme". God is our "pal" in this case; you can not conceive of the situation without his/her grace apparently.

In the stead of counting the dead by the hundreds, we could be counting the dead by the hundreds of thousands.

Merciful in the extreme.

[Huck]

In the stead of counting the dead by the hundreds, we could be counting the dead by the hundreds of thousands.

Sorta like the merciful rapist who decides not to murder the victim. There's nothing merciful in destroying people's lives. It's cruel and brutal.