But Tom, it isn’t “devastation” when done by America. It’s “collateral damage,” the price “we” have to pay (recalling Madeleine Albright’s cost/benefit analysis of the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi chilren) for ridding the world of “evil” forces that do not respect life!! Of course, the “we” always turns out to be someone else! Mike and Anthony are also on point re the obsessiveness with which the Bush administration and its sycophantic (perhaps that should be spelled “psychophantic”) media and talk show voices continue to recite the mantra of “American generosity.” In Shakespeare’s words, they “protest too much.”