Just to echo some of oldmac's sentiments, I saw the same kind of thing just a couple generations after Korea. After two tours in Iraq, I came away knowing that the government didn't give a damn about the soldiers and in fact made it harder to do their difficult job there with over-restrictive Rules of Engagement in order for the government to never have to have press conferences about innocents getting killed. They traded Iraqi civilian lives for the lives of American servicemen. Don't get me wrong, I'm not proponing killing civilians at all, but if a soldier is in a difficult situation, he shouldn't have to hesitate when pulling the trigger, thinking he'll get court-martialed.

Just listen to all the headlines lately about how the swine flu is supposed to come back in a huge way later this summer and into the fall. The first outbreak was just the beta test to see how things will go. All these WHO talking heads are saying how thousands will be infected. By the way, when the World Health Org. disease level goes to epidemic, which I think is level 5, they supercede the authority & autonomy of national governments. Meaning, they can force-innoculate you against the swine flu with whatever cocktail they want to shoot into your body to "help" you.