Another one of my friends had forwarded Col. Kern's thoughtful letter to me the other day. As with the "Afgan letter" I sincerely hope there is a "real" person behind it. And I do hope there are some similar military and international policy people working on our response to these terrorist acts.

Aside from George W.'s foolish statements, I'm generally impressed with what the Bush Adminstration is saying. I'll probably be less impressed with the civil rights that will be abused in the process of investigating the terrorist acts, but then I can always join those who are concerned by funding law suits to punish the abusers.

I also hope that our long term relationships with our new "allies" in this fight to root out terrorism, do not end up inflicting more terrorism on us in the years to come, but I suppose that's being too thoughtful.

I wonder where I filed that old protest song I wrote back in 1990 just before we began the ground war in the Persian Gulf? Sigh, it was obsolete within a week.