>>Ah, now I understand. And agree. I once gallantly plucked a beetle out of a new girlfriend's hair, threw it on the ground and stomped on it. She screamed, "Noooo! Don't kill it!" It didn't last long. The beetle or the relationship.
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>Hmmm - sounds like an analogy for Iraq! :-)

If I'm the big bad American, the beetle represents terrorists and the girlfriend is the bleeding heart liberals, then we're on the same page. Though, I think our interpretation of the moral might be slightly different...