>>Pakistan and India share a border, nuclear capability, and the apparent urge to use them. Here's hoping they just blow each other up without pulling the rest of us into it.
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>That is the same feeling I had for URSS and USA, unfortunately some crazy people brought them into their senses and my wishes never materialized :P

Point taken.

I have been revisiting your point of origin, rereading Mario Vargas Llosa. He was Peruvian, not Argentinian, but close enough. What a great writer. Maybe that's why they gave him the Nobel Prize ;-)