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>When was the last time you felt sorry for all of the death and destruction
>you have caused?  (UK Politics Misc...)
Thnx for question on a boring Sun pm reviewing my work for next week,
& waiting for McCain/Palin to further selfdestruct....

Well do you mean death & destructiion (a) as a US voter (b) in my
continuing capacity as a Cambridge & UCLA-trained Military and Weapons
etc consultant over the last fifty (50) years for the US---
When Adm Rickover puts his std q. to  me, in his Nuke Sub in the sky,
"Did you do your best?" I can truthfully answer, "Yes, Hymie"
Let me repeat 1 anecdote-- in 63-65 (at the RAND Corp, Santa Monica,
along w. Brian Gluss, City of London Sch. & Cambridge)  a std concept
was bonus megadeath -the extra civilian deaths you get when you Nuke a
military target, and the wind drifts.. etc etc. Herman Kahn would
expound on this, notably around Xmas when the RAND carolers were
circulating.. and say "Well, boys, this may not be the time to
discuss..."-- apochryphal or not, I can't remember
A few years pass. Reagan's loony Star Wars injects new $, including
yrs truly, to think about database and data storage on the orbiting
platform which of course will never, and could never, happen... (Nudge
Nudge, Wink Wink, cash that check..)
I raised the subject of storing data re-erm-projected megadeath -eg in
triaging incoming warheads---
I was laughed out of court.
..... it all seems like a dream now ...