Fear or Love, Doug. What'll it be? What would you use with your next door neighbour or your children?

Is the other guy human or is he not? What do you think?

What if the people on the "other side" use your logic, as you have stated above, and say: "If you appease them, they will consider this a weakness and will answer kindness with aggression." This is precisely the attitude that motivates Palestinian suicide bombers who blow themselves up in Israeli marketplaces, rather than using dialogue, non-violence, and other peaceful methods to secure change in Israel and the Middle East.

They're afraid to be seen as weak, Doug. And like you, they believe they are among the "good guys" and among those who are being threatened with potential attack by a ruthless and evil enemy.

So how about it? Love or fear? Are we a single human race or are we not?

- LH