I think the main point is that this is a site meant for discussion of Perl. More to the point, I don't think that discussion of the war should be permanently etched in nodes that will still be around in the years to come. For the past several hours, the chatterbox has been filled with talk about the war. This I don't mind at all. The chatterbox is temporary: these discussions will be wiped out after a few mere minutes (except of course for personal chatterbox logs people are keeping). Furthermore, each user can do a /chatteroff if they really do not want to listen to what is going on in the U.S. and overseas.

If anyone is looking for more in-depth discussion topics on the war, I am quite sure there must be a few newsgroups that are focussed on just that. PerlMonks is a place for Perl, newsgroups are for news. Simple :)

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