At 01:21 AM 9/13/01 -0800, Jim Weller wrote: >The United States must take a page from British history and resort to >gunboat diplomacy, using force to create external order. It may be >forced to take over and run troubled and troublesome countries like >Afghanistan to prevent them from being used as staging grounds for >attacks on the United States. > Um, you might want to ask members of the former Soviet Union for advice on how best to take over and run Aphganistan... =Mark