At 2:52 AM -0700 4/12/03, James A. Donald wrote:
The looting will solve itself soon. All regime targets have been looted, which means that everyone now has guns. Naturally the looters start hitting non regime targets. Those targeted proceed to execute looters. Looting rapidly declines.
That's exactly what's happening in Sadd-, er, Liberty City. Mob rule works, when the mob is armed... The imams have asked for all their stuff to come back to the mosques, and, oddly enough, the stuff's coming back. Expect the same thing for the hospitals, at least in the Shiite areas... Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'