http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/opinion/0902/29bookman.html

“You saw the movie ‘High Noon’? he asks. “We’re Gary Cooper.”

(Think of the respect and friends the US would win if it redirected its intellect, energies and some of this lot toward saving the lives of starving Africans:

“In 2000, we spent $281 billion on our military, which was more than the next 11 nations combined. By 2003, our expenditures will have risen to $378 billion. In other words, the increase in our defense budget from 1999-2003 will be more than the total amount spent annually by China, our next largest competitor.”)

3 October 2002