BTW, I meant of the Marlon Brando one, not the other!!!

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"Not all who wander are lost." - J. R. R. Tolkien

"You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." - John Wooden

I chose "other" because all of the above listed seem to be intertwined.

I’m not a sociologist, but let me just throw this out there for discussion. One may say that, on this planet, humans at the very core are essentially animals, intelligent, rational-thinking animals, but animals none-the-less.

Lets say for example, the US and other countries behave much like packs of wolves, family units with organized social structures. Larger more powerful packs may be inclined to broaden their territory. Or if their territory is invaded, a pack would be inclined to defend it. Could the constant cycle of wars dotted throughout our history just be humans fighting for territory? Is it a question of survival of the fittest?

Ah, but we are smarter than the average animal, aren’t we?

Well as long as we try are dardndest to rationalize our squabble then its ok!

We just come up with ploys like "Saddam was Saddemizing the people" or weapon of MASS destruction (but Chuck Norris lives in Oklahoma), or "this is a holy war!".

No matter what the excuse is, it is still stupid!

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My honey brings home A.P. news stories for me and I though you might want to hear this one.
Hingam Mass - A discount retailer in Massachusetts is apoiogizing for advertising "Wife beater" T-shirts in a store flier.
The ad for Building 19 outragd woman's groups and led to a quick apology from the retail chain's co-founder Jerry Ellis. Ellis acknowledges the circular was "insensitive" He tells the Metrowest Daily news of Framingham he " was either too dumb or lazy or distracted" when he let the copy "go by."
I don't know but, it sounds a bit silly to me. You may be right about this.

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Hope is a very dangerous thing to lose. - Sayid

I do what my Rice Krispies tell me to. - Anonymous

Nobody reads Kipling any more....The war we'r in is the same one as in "Kim"...History is written by the winners..

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Two steps ahead of the guys with the butterfly nets!!

Yeah your right, you mean the poet dont you?

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Kipling wrote prose too.

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Things fall apart, the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

--Lines 2-6, "The Second Coming" by Wm. Butler Yeats

Jungle Book - "I don't know if the size of the gun matters. I would say it's up to the owner."

That Kipling?

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Hope is a very dangerous thing to lose. - Sayid

I do what my Rice Krispies tell me to. - Anonymous