> I feel ashamed to consider myself a member of the same species as
> the US & UK governments and militaries.
>
> End of off-topic.
>
> Andy T.
Maybe this will make you feel better - creative new ideas from the
Pentagon for winning the war without all that nasty fighting ...
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18524823.800&print=trueTHE Pentagon considered developing a host of non-lethal chemical
weapons that would disrupt discipline and morale among enemy troops,
newly declassified documents reveal.
Most bizarre among the plans was one for the development of
an "aphrodisiac" chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers
sexually irresistible to each other. Provoking widespread homosexual
behaviour among troops would cause a "distasteful but completely non-
lethal" blow to morale, the proposal says.
Other ideas included chemical weapons that attract swarms of enraged
wasps or angry rats to troop positions, making them uninhabitable.
Another was to develop a chemical that caused "severe and lasting
halitosis", making it easy to identify guerrillas trying to blend in
with civilians.
There was also the idea of making troops' skin unbearably sensitive
to sunlight.