[First_Salute]

In the movie, The Untouchables, Sean Connery's Chicago cop character says, "What are you prepared to do?"

He did not mean, break the law.

He did not mean, will you conduct surveys and consensus meetings and half-measures at bargaining table and then to the next bargaining table ... until this thing is declared by the weak-kneed to be "finished."

He meant, will you stand up and fight to the finish?

[snopercod]

Some FReeper has a tagline reading something like, "It will take 100,000 dead Americans before this war is taken seriously."

Probably true.