Kipling also wrote of bearing the white man's burden for all the dirty colored folk of the world. I think peackeeping would attract noble individuals. As it stands, we have roving street gangs with a glorified sense of authority and justification.

Aren't these men? Didn't they likely vote for Bush? Aren't they citizens? Don't they deserve to shoulder some of the blame for their actions? American soldiers of WWII didn't do the sorts of things our soldiers do now, at least not nearly as much. I''d wager the Germans did.

We've been fighting an unjust war founded on insubstantial principals. Flies are always attracted to shit.