> now verbal war herein and elsewhere is a whole nother thang

My sentiments exactly, Anna! Some of the most rewarding and invigorating discussions are bellicose, at least to begin with. They are often started by knee-jerk reactions to ambiguous or incomplete information understood as a veritable war cry; this allows people to be frank :-)

BTW, in AWAD it said that casus belli was 'New Latin'. How new does that make it?