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[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"]I was in the "Olympics of the Mind" when I was little. There were three components to it. We had to build something, perform something and then participate in this kind of stupid free association roundtable. The questions always came out of some post-modern, overpriced car commercial. You know the kind: they are the ones that start off like... <i>"Why do we work...?</i> and then it somehow segues into how you should buy an Eclipse. One year our theme was the Big Top and our question was, "What is big?" The instructor then goes around the table, one answer per kid, until the time limit. Frequently, a member of your team would take your answer before your turn, so whether you admitted or not, you thought up back-up answers based on your assement of how stupid the kid next to you was. This list of the pros and cons of war would fit right in. <i>Why is war bad?</i> [quote name="Jerry Whorebach."]* Nations lose their innocence[/quote] I have no idea what this means. The only thing I can think of is that this is in reference to the Great White American Devil starting an armed conflict with some poor and wholly innocent nation-state. The denizens of that country then hear the kind of unfiltered, focused racism the likes of which that hemisphere could have never otherwise conceived. Or it's just a retarded entry on a stupid list. I don't know why the Wikipedia turned out to be such a failure in every respect. [quote]* War blogs gain traction in blogosphere[/quote] I don't need to click on "History" for that Wiki link to know that this was inserted by someone who runs a war blog. ICJ[/quote]