Today is the 40th anniversary of the killing of four students, taking part in a peaceful protest against the American war in Vietnam, at Kent State University:

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/may/04/vietnam-us-military

"After years of bombing and burning South-east Asian villages in search of an elusive and ill-defined "enemy", the nation's imperial war machine had finally decided to turn its rifles and bayonets on its own privileged children."

Thinking of our own situation now, what happens when all countries on the "axis of evil" have been turned into US colonies. Who will they then turn their weapons on?