"Could the rest of our nation deal with everyone in 10 major cities killed and every person in 12 states wounded, if 216,000 doctors had left the U.S. in the last three years, and just last year 3,000 doctors were kidnapped and 800 killed; with our roads, schools, and housing falling apart; with three times as many people out of work as during the Great Depression; with unknown horrors to come from depleted uranium?"

Good one invictus: one can only hope that putting these things in what I choose to call "human scale" that perhaps a somewhat larger percentile will begin to think seriously, and with a little more empathy.

Definitely, Socratoad. I think, these things and many more will be discussed widely and publicly with all details in the upcoming months. We are approaching a very critical "point of no return" and I wish empathy and common sense will dominate the remaining 4 years of the decade.