What was that old saying? "Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it?" The Empire of Great Britain suffered a not dissimilar outrage when a rebellious Indian group slaughtered unarmed british civilians and troops who had disarmed under promise of protection. The leader of that incident fled to the northern 'bandit country' and never was captured. How many armchair pundits ( another indian word) aside from our british members know who, and what I am even talking about? Iraq has bled precious resources from Afghanistan and his capture, and in our utter ineptitude bred more terrorists like the mythical Hydra's heads. With our present policy of intervention in Haiti, Venezuela and Iraq, Osama will live to be an old man. We need to be a Republic again, and not Pax Roma.