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Well, let's see. Cannons to the left of me, cannons to the right of me. Respectfully, L.W.M., your take on the necessity of our entry into WWI isn't persuasive for a number of reasons having nothing to do with your assertion that WT would avoid war even when it's offered unequivocally.
With much less respect for his argument than his existence, I say to bucky that I've never argued what he says I've argued, except when viewed through that woefully distorted lens which he seems unable to put down.
Bebop has it about right, as usual. Avoid being adversarial if you can. As mortals, though, we can't always manage it. Innocence is rarely an option, to err is human, etc. I'd like to live in eternity, and regret that I can't, yet I'm grateful that by one sort of grace or another -- meditating on one of bebop's songs, for example -- I'm occasionally afforded a glimpse of it.
Urbis et orbis, pax vobiscum.
