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TV - There's also Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher, who both lead their respective countries at the time of war. In addition, there are many women from older time periods who lead their nations to war - Queen Victoria, Catherine the Great, and Queens Anne, Mary, and Elizabeth of England, come to mind. And there were female leaders of ancient Egypt as well as female leaders in the Bible who had no qualms about wars and using violence to solve a dispute. Now you can make the point that all these women led patriarchal societies, but then you really don't have any evidence that women can lead nations and resist war any more than men can.

TV - So your point that patriarchal societies are the cause of war is unfounded. There's no evidence to prove that a matriachal society would be any worse or better. So there's nothing on which to base your silly theory. Think before you write next time. Just admit it was a poor attempt at humor and move on.

Ross,

Sorry - I certainly cannot be held responsible for your patriarchal insistence that "evidence" of the success of something that has never been tried is required before it is attempted.

Women simply don't shoot first and ask questions later as men do. Women's organizations are less concerned with winning than they are with consensus, and I have sincere belief that *nothing* could be worse than the way men have run the world for the past 100 centuries.

But please, feel free to keep supporting a way of looking at the world that makes everyone an enemy if that gets you through the night.