There's a picture of Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's hand.
There's a picture of Osama with the Afghanistan Northern Alliance near CIA agents bringing weapons to fight the Russians.
There's a picture of America fighting Japan and Germany and Britain.
There's no picture of America ever fighting the French.
There 's a picture of most powers shifting alliances over time, once enemies, now partners, and once partners, now enemies.
There's a picture of the world so righteously intelligent about the Palestinians, but ignorant for decades since WWI about the Kurds and for such ignorance has no equal passion for them.
It is passion that appears to inform most of our arguments rather than logic.
There are two thundering herds in this world and most people like sheep really believe they are independent thinkers.
Sheep make the decision to follow the leader.