Well, I can appreciate the sensibility with which you write, Ron. But if Imay say so what I find ghoulish is fomenting blind allegiance to an operation that spills the entrails of innocent humans into the sand and leaves them there smoking in the sun. What I find ghoulish is trying to persuade people that there is glory in invasion and virtue in throwing hot lead into othe rpoeple's bodies. I find it ghoulish in the extreme that the insurgents of Iraq -- even if they ar emisguided -- are being identified as terrorists so that they will be identified as linked in some arcane evil way with the nurders of Septemeber 2001. I find it ghoulish that human beings can contemplate a unilateral war, all its horror and destruction and pain and bloodletting, and smile with patriotic pride rather than puke their guts out on the White House steps.

But maybe that's just me.

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