QOTD

Wednesday Barack Obama told an audience in Estonia that borders cannot be redrawn by the barrel of a gun.

It's a wonderful thought, but that's how most borders have been drawn since the invention of guns.
Which brings me to this little gem from Ambrose Bierce:

“CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.”

 Prior to the invention of gunpowder, men used swords and spears and sometimes sticks and rocks.  The last time I remember boundaries being altered amenably was when Virginia and Maryland agreed to donate 10 square miles of their sovereign territory for use as space for the new national capitol. The land in question being a foetid swamp and reservoir for malaria and yellow fever, both were glad to be rid of it. Had they known what it would ultimately cost them, they probably would have lobbied for locating the new capitol in Kansas. The above quote is from The Devils Dictionary, which can be found here.

Edited to fix type font. I have no idea what happened.