[Senator Bedfellow]

You've got a large and militarily extremely powerful nation torpedoing any ship it sees; that same nation is urging your southern neighbor to join in fighting you; and he's making overtures to the Japanese in that context -- and you're going to .... what?

You wait by the phone for your claims adjuster to call, obviously, which he will do as soon as he determines that it's cheaper to fight a war than it is to eat the cost of the sunken ships ;)

[Shalom Israel]

You wait by the phone for your claims adjuster to call, obviously, which he will do as soon as he determines that it's cheaper to fight a war than it is to eat the cost of the sunken ships ;)

Many a truth said in jest. The reason a billion chinese live in relative slavery today, is that their slavery is less miserable than their lives would be if they revolted tomorrow. We all perform this calculation. I worked for two years for the company from hell, on the doomed project from hell, because I preferred my sufferings (and salary) to the uncertainties of a job hunt in a down market.