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Actually, JO, that is what I believed up until the recent reports that this form of behavior was explicitly *encouraged* by the military intelligence agency and a part of the pentagon. The Tolstoy dictum ("give a man a uniform and a drum and he will turn into a monster") is certainly true, but has been exacerbated under the mistaken idea that this would lead to easier access to gleaning information from potential terrorists about future plans. Really.