>>I only wish there was one, at least one, American government which would slap hands on _BOTH_ sides and say "get serious about making peace, or else none of you get a single billion until you do", and mean it.
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>Have you read Nelson Demille's 'Wild Fire?'

No, but I can smell it often last couple of weeks - the Northcarolinians must be quite hairy if they had so many brushes to burn ;).