and I know just where you are coming from.

I recall a night in my apartment back in HK prior to Gulf-2, lamenting aloud at what a certain 'son of a Texas whore' was about to unleash on the world and the harm he was about to do to people I used to know as friends (my many American associates).

I believe that all that was obvious to the open eyed bck then, has happened.

Mubarak's prediction of 100 Osama Bin Laden's was not the public word of any idiot.

Kennedy had his faults (as they all do) but man did he stand tall, not only to Americans but to the world. Outside the US we nearly all loved the man and US gained greatly from that - the black days began with Nixon - the anti-Kennedy.

Cheers

Doug M