Hi Eric, I was reading your daily blog today and it reminded me of a story one of my clients told me a few weeks ago.  He is an economist and used to work for the WHO and has done consulting work all over the world. He spends time in Canada, Europe, the States and the Middle East.  He was telling me that once he had a consultation project with Boeing.  He had a meeting with the CEO in the morning.  When he went into his office, he noticed that on the CEO's desk was a large plaque on his desk...the words on the plaque were, "WE PRAY FOR WAR."  The CEO looked at my client who was observing the words and asked him, "What do you think about that ?" My client looked at him and expressed some shock over seeing those words printed as a mantra on the CEO's desk. The CEO said to my client:    "We basically manufacture two kinds of aircrafts, civilian and military...A civilian aircraft may give us a profit of 8-10 million (I can't remember the exact figure he told me Eric but it was around this)...and it generally has a lifetime of a few years.  A military fighter jet has profits in the 40-50 million dollar range (again my figures may not be completely accurate) and it has a lifetime of 4-5 months.  I have shareholders to keep happy...Now do you understand why, WE PRAY FOR WAR..." L., in Canada