Thanks for the reply, BShea. I was indeed just curious as the DMZ is a horse of a different color, in my opinion [[jcole, sarcasm duly noted).

Looks like it the country ended up in shards just like Vietnam did, with no signs of letting up any time soon. While I concur that a thug married to any ideology is still a thug, I would sure hope our interdiction into the affairs of other countries would take a turn for the better. Apparently supplying countless monies, arms, etc. is not doing the trick.

Det_ard, I think the argument is that wealth cannot be infinite when the resources to create/maintain that wealth are not, especially when these resources [[namely our ecosystem) is put on the backburner, literally, in order to maintan that wealth.