"We" are at war? Well, somebody is at war all right, but I'm not. Not so far anyway.

Here's an observation on the concept of terrorizing terrorists...

"it can't stop until all terrorists believe that there is no future in the indiscriminate murder of non combatant innocent civilians."

Well, there's definitely no "future" in piloting an airplane into the side of a skyscraper...after all, the guys who did it are dead! So, how do you deter people who are willing to die? By killing them all before they get a chance to do it themselves? Hmmmm....

Now if you could just find them all...

This would require killing people not only in Afghanistan, but in a very long list of other places as well.

It's a pity that terrorists don't all have horns growing out of their heads, or some obvious feature like that, then you could kill them all quite easily, without needing expensive items like cruise missiles to do it.

You would think, evil as they are, that nature or God or something would have provided horns or something like that. It just isn't fair! Even Bin Laden looks like a sort of kindly soul...no mad glint in his eyes in those press photos. And Saddam...he looks like any other beefy middle-aged Iraqui guy with a mustache. Geez. :-)

Be that as it may, I am not surprised about these military strikes...it was virtually inevitable, and it will make a number of people in the West feel better, specially Americans.

Let's hope it doesn't last too long or broaden into a wider conflict.

- LH