Doyle, Ben Stiller got the Rebs and Yanks to stop fighting and work together with his little pep talk. It made me realize that I can't recall any "neutral" nation making a strong effort, if any effort at all, to negotiate a peace. Maybe that was just unthought of in those days but if Jimmy Carter could get Egypt and Isreal to sign peace accords it seems a sad fact that nobody "yelled time-out" at our ancestors. Could it be they were profiting off our misfortion. Would Merry Old England and French friends do that to us???