Hero swimmer arrested, page-18

Bang on target. I’ll always wonder, ( in polite company but internally I don’t wonder at all ), why the baby was being dangled by another fellow the whole while but hey- it was a better distraction than another mass murder. ( I wasn’t aiming my ‘leaving the family behind thing at that fellow in particular but at the waves of idle hands in general )

At the very least I can say oh well at least he was willing to work for a few minutes.

How sad is it that I can easily imagine the scenario that you present for the former smuggled now turned smuggler if it had all happened here.

This reply is partly in order to scratch an irritating itch & that is to say that I could, rather, should have put a lot more thought in to what I was trying to say in our first to and fro. I’ll leave it at that as you have, in kind, extended the olive branch- cheers for that. I often find that butting heads is the only way my disposition allows me to measure people I come across.

It’s funny to talk of any of these things right now as I watch ‘Charlie Wilson’s War’ & see the Americans arming people who are chanting about some fellow named Akbar.