[Moose4]

The more things change, the more they stay the same?

We couldn't snap our fingers and instantly rebuild a shattered Europe in 1945, and we can't snap our fingers and instantly rebuild a shattered Iraq in 2003-04. But rebuild it, we and the Iraqis will.

}:-)4

[RobbyS]

Thanks. Of course, all this is unknown even to the grandchildren of the Germans who suffered through this winter and the two following ones. The Germans, with our help, rebuilt their country brick by brick during the next fifteen or twenty years. So amazing was their succes that thee same grandchildren enjoyy such luxury that they do not wish to share it with their own children. The German race is dying out as more and more Germans spend their wealth on luxuries instead of on the future.