[Gondring]

One of James Madison's greatest lines, written about Alexander Hamilton--the Switzerland of the Founding Fathers--and his neutrality push:

"Several features with the signature of [Hamilton] were [as of] late published, which have been read with singular pleasure and applause by the foreigners and degenerate citizens among us, who hate our republican government and the French Revolution."

Over and over I ponder... How different the world would be now, if a British dragoon had aimed the muzzle of his weapon mere millimeters differently and shot Alexander Hamilton at Valley Forge (Sep 18, 1777). Might we have intervened in the French Revolution? Would we have a Federal Reserve Bank problem?

That glorious tension between factions, where both sides loved America, is so different from the friction we have now.

[Pharmboy]

Indeed, what you said. Another incident and the possible consequences thereof would be this one, where Washington's life is spared by Capt. Patrick Ferguson, a sniper and firearms inventor.