Something to think about--hard...

Grimbeorn has some very sobering thoughts on the GWOT here. You might be shocked by the title, but read it anyway.
As countless people have remarked, there will be no peace until they love their children more than they hate us. :(

Things that make you go "Heh"....

I've had to read poems by Gunter Grass before. It made me physically ill. (Non-German-speakers, suffice it to say that both poems were about horrific crime scenes.) So I'm not at all surprised to find out that he served in the Waffen SS. In fact, that explains a lot.
[To be honest, my German Poetry prof, who had lived through WWII herself, gave us the poems with the caveat that *she* didn't like Grass and didn't expect *us* to like him, either, but that we needed to read them so we could say we'd read Grass. :P]