Wow!
Richard, you really took me on a trip this time. That Cookoo Clock speech and that background music combined with the festering boil of Iraq finally being successfully lanced. All these things swirl together into my personal bleak, man as mud, memories of the early days of the Cold War and the whole thing slides into today’s economic uncertanties and form a heady brew. The French ambiguity is part of it too.

You might find a successful career as a film writer. Take a shot at it sometime.

Thanks for the trip. It was inspirational on the human condition. I’ll try to watch that movie again.