Peter UK: On my most recent visit to your country I got to see my old flat in South Kensington. So my exposure to U.K. over the decades is more than a brief tourist excursion. Also, on all of my trips I had nothing but good experiences with the British. I even had a pleasant half hour in Cairdeeth (Cardiff) conversing with some soldiers who had been in Basra in March and April of 2003. And your “people” haven’t been there for over 2,000 years. I think more than a few invasions (Angles, Saxons, Jutes, et al.) in the first millenium pretty much took care of the natives who were there 2,000 years ago.

As for the polls, Packers 28, Redskins 14 (and Sox 4, Cardinals 0) pretty much tells you all you need to know about Tuesday’s outcome.

Moore: modern terrorists have been with us since at least the mid 19th century (the anarchists who first used bombs), and didn’t require state sponsors then. You’re right about Syria and Iran (and you left out Libya) been states which have sponsored terrorists. Of course, you forgot the United States. Remember Reagan’s assistance to the both Iran and the Central America Contras, and how embarrassed he should have been when trading arms for hostages ended up assisting Hizbollah (every time we paid for a hostage to be released, they took another to take his or her place), and when his efforts to violently topple Nicaragua ended up a complete failure, while the locals voted out the communist regime of Daniel Ortega?

Al Qaida, on the other hand, seems to be doing quite fine without the Taliban to sponsor them. With Bush helping their recruiting drives, they have managed to inspire emulators in Spain, Indonesia, and elsewhere.