I like to start the day with a large cup of tea and a look at the daily newspapers. Every day the news is depressing. Children murdered and cannibalised in Noida, people killed in battles between communists and farmers in Bengal over land acquisition, a sixteen year old girl killed by spurned suiter, Biharis killed in Assam by anti Hindi terrorists, unknown number killed in Somalia by U.S. bombing of phantom Al Qaeda, and of course the ever present Iraq. Yesterday was the same and no doubt tomorrow will also bring a new list of murder and mayhem, only the countries may be different. Old timers like to talk about the 'good old days' but were the old days really so good. History is replete with wars and revolutions. There was the thiry year wars, the hundred year wars, the French revolution, the October revolution and countless others. Then there were the heroes. Achilles, Hannibal, Alexander, Nepoleon, Robin Hood, Patton, warriors all. A visit to the room exhibiting the instruments of torture at the Tower of London will illustrate what I mean. War, rape and plunder were a way of life, a million today carry the genes of Chengis Khan. I think that sociopaths, psychos and assorted nutters are born in every generation since the beginning of time. In the olden days a war would happen every 30 or so years when all the nutters gathered at one place and hacked at each other with swords. When all were cleared out people lived in peace. Today they use missile from a distance or use remote controlled devices. I suggest that an island be set aside under UN control. All nutters will go there and fight only with swords or small arms. Neocons can devise strategy. UN will cordon off the island so that only the severly wounded will be allowed out. This way the nutters can satisfy their urge to kill while we wimps carry on with our peaceful if mundane.