[tomkat]

it is only with a forceful exertion of will that i am able
to not wish to possess the power to unleash the
weapons that would obliterate every trace of humanity in
afghanistan and most of the rest of the middle east.

and that's precisely the difference between us and them.

they either do not, or will not understand our philosophical/moral
struggle with the concept that that is not the course that our creator
would have us pursue.

god help me, but it's a titanic task not to hate every swarthy one of them...

[fnord]

god help me, but it's a titanic task not to hate every swarthy one of them...

I know what you mean ... I don't even know if it's a task worth the effort :-(