Jim-- You aren't trying to stir up another political storm here on the MT Forum, are you? We had quite a rhetorical melee back in March of 2003, and the forum's been rather quiet on this topic since. Your quotations from disconcerted Americans about foreign policy at the end of the 19th C sounds suspiciouly like our contemporary moment. Now will forum subscribers who were confident a year and half ago that Iraq had WMD take the bait? Stay tuned. LH