Whenever I read a story like this or a comment like yours, I remember the following proverb: >When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. I first hear

Whenever I read a story like this or a comment like yours, I remember the following proverb: >When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. I first heard it mentioned with respect to the Cold War in Africa, but the (Kenyan tribal) proverb seems to apply quite widely.