Hi Ken, The best way to handle mad men is not let them in power in the first. The seeds of WWII where sown at the end of WWI - when they decided to punish the dickens out of Germany - hence the reason we helped rebuild - Japan and Germany after WWII. It is incrediable important that once a war is over you let the hate go. My mothers country was overrun by the Germans and the boys where drafted into the German military - and the girls where drafted into the Hitler youth movement - they had no choice - it would have bben the death sentence for my grandmother and her youngest child. While bits and pieces of the family survived. My oldest oncle was wounded and has a metal plate in his head - but he and his family survived. The next uncle and his entire family was killed - by the Americans - he in battle and the family was bombed while fleeing across a frozen river - the mother and 3 children drowned. The next Uncle fell at Stalingrad. The nest uncle was killed by the Russianas as he was in a field hopsiptal when they came thru - they dodn't take prisoners and his wife was injured when the group of refugees fleeing in a convoy was straffed by Americans. My mother was captured by the Russian and escaped, her younest brother was placed on a ferry bound for Sweden and was torpoed out of the water - many of the child died many more drowned and those that survived hide in fear. I would guess most of us from Europe - have grown up on the war stories of our families, and we have to some degree seen the destruction. I believe those who have seen and been in war know the price and don't want to do it again. I do not want my child to leave this way. So I will never advocate for war. We should remember that a great deal of England and Germany where completely wasted - I can not hate for I have seen what it does. Besides I would have to hate the US, Russia and Germany. As teenager when I watched WWII moves I watched my people bombing my people - I understood why and yet I knew somewhere down below where my Mom and Oma and all the rest. I was so emotional devastated that I have never again watched a war movie. I wish there where words that could convey the grief and futility I felt. Goddess Bless - Trisha > How do you suggest we handle madmen, mag? Being wimpy did not do anything > with hitler, stalin, etc, etc. make a sugestion that history has not > proved > wrong and we'll try it. > >