diff --git a/docs/scripting.xml b/docs/scripting.xml
index 6869e6fd7..5bd509562 100644
--- a/docs/scripting.xml
+++ b/docs/scripting.xml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
     growing and diverse set of scripts distributed with Nmap, or write
     their own to meet custom needs.</para>
 
-    <para>Tasks we had in mind when creating the system include:</para>    
+    <para>NSE was designed to be versatile so these are some of the tasks we had in mind when creating the system:</para>    
 
     <variablelist>
       <varlistentry>
@@ -36,11 +36,11 @@
        is able to recognize thousands of different services through
        its probe and regular expression based matching system, but it
        cannot recognize everything.  For example, identifying the Skype v2 service requires two
-       independent probes.  Nmap could also recognize more SNMP services
+       independent probes which version detection isn't flexible enough to handle.  Nmap could also recognize more SNMP services
        if it tried a few hundred different community names by brute
        force.  Neither of these tasks are well suited to traditional
-       Nmap version detection, but both are easily accomplished with
-       NSE.  For these reasons, version detection now calls NSE by
+       Nmap version detection but are particularly easy accomplish with
+       NSE.  Because of this, version detection now seamlessly calls NSE by
        default to handle some tricky services.  This is described in
        <xref linkend="nse-vscan"/>.</para>
 
@@ -55,7 +55,12 @@
           <para>When a new vulnerability is discovered, you often want
        to scan your networks quickly to identify vulnerable systems
        before the bad guys do.  While Nmap isn't a
-       comprehensive <ulink role="hidepdf" url="http://sectools.org/vuln-scanners.html">vulnerability scanner</ulink>, we plan to distribute scripts for some very severe or common vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.</para>
+       comprehensive <ulink role="hidepdf" url="http://sectools.org/vuln-scanners.html">vulnerability scanner</ulink>, 
+       NSE is powerful enough to handle even demanding vulnerability
+       checks.  A few vulnerability detection scripts have already been
+       written and we plan to distribute additional scripts for very severe
+       or common vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
+       </para>
 
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -72,7 +77,7 @@
            posted an Nmap version detection probe and
 	   signature so that others could quickly scan their networks.
 	   For more complex worms and backdoors, NSE is needed
-	   instead.
+	   for reliable detection.
        </para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -80,7 +85,7 @@
         <term>Vulnerability exploitation</term>
         <listitem>
           <para>
-	   As a general scripting language, NSE could even
+	   As a general scripting language, NSE can even
 	   be used to exploit vulnerabilities rather than just find them.
 	   The capability to add custom exploit scripts may be valuable
 	   for some people (particularly