Yes Amos, that's what our enemies would like to do: drive us mad with reasoning (sic) like yours. When an identifiable group of theocrats commandeers an "airforce" and attacks the World Trade Towers in New York, The Pentagon and the US Capitol in Washington DC, THAT IS AN ACT OF WAR. Its not merely a crime. Re-read the opening piece. It may be the tactics of necessity but it is a war nonetheless. Osama BinLaden "DECLARED WAR" and this nation under Clinton bought into your way of thinking and chose to ignore him, even though he had the ways and means to prosecute his war. That's how we got 9/11 in the first place. Instead of puking up that liberal swill for rumination take a look at the facts and see if you can't come to a more logical conclusion.