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Mean Mr. Mustard is voicing something I'm sure we've all thought of before, but never articulated -- the strange parallels between the Cosby Show and U.N. foreign policy disputes.

Whenever I hear urges to outlaw war I always recall that very special Cosby Show episode where Rudy pluckily tells a story she wrote about a happy kingdom beset by invaders who want to lord it over the peace-loving folks. They even try being nice to the conquest-minded newcomers, but that only emboldens them further to be more degrading in their aggressive behavior. It seems like quite the moral quandry for the non-violent denziens, until a little girl of the kingdom in no uncertain terms tells all the bad people that they have to "Stop it!" Of course the bad folks stop.