As a committed pacifist Dan, I'm curious as to why you feel it is inappropriate to be singing anti-war songs at this time when they are needed so badly.

While I understand the pressures to conform to the "unity" themes the government, schools, businesses, military and police, and the mass media are very intense, isn't making a stand against "unity for military retaliation" what your pacifism is supposed to be about? Taking a stand when it is difficult, not some time later when more people will oppose the slaughter of the innocents?

Isn't that the one thing we really *can* be clear about? I heard the wife of one of the men who was killed on the plane that crashed in PA, who said she certainly didn't want to see a military retaliation, because she knew it meant other families somewhere else in the world would share in her famiy's fate, which she wouldn't wish on anyone. If a survivor can be so clear and so strong about that the week after the attack, why are so many of the rest of us finding it so difficult?