A pleasure to meet both of you Johnson boys, presumably the same ones about whom the traditional song was written:

"Step up pretty girls, don't be afraid! Step up pretty girls, don't be afraid.."

There -- music has been served.

Don, I am behind your feelings completely. No individual can "be" the United States in the way that these terrorists have tried to claim them to be.

There was a day-care center in the WTC, also.

The thing is, I believe that the rhetoric of Islam rabblerousers is not truthful. Their brief against us is that we dominate the world and have plenty, while their people struggle. Not all of them -- not those in the oil-rich nations allied with the West. The simple fact is that the United states does not name Islamism as an offense, but as an exercise of natural freedom. This is not consistent with the characterization of the United states as the Great Satan of the Universe.

Another thought. While could serve the people of Palestine, the people of Afghanistan, the people of Pakistan better, I do not believe we have levied atrocities or major offenses against them.

And if their issues are the well-being of their lives and economies, they have as much liberty to improve those things as we do, legally and economically.

I have scratched my head for two days trying to understand where our humongous crimes lie. And I am currently persuaded that we have been characterized as "Evil" by a psychotic mind-set. Under those cuircumstances I do not believe striving to communicate, striving to understand one's offenses, is the right path. The righht path is to disarm and dissolve the psychotic group which is putting one's life at risk.

Until the network under Ben Laden is dust, however it is acheived, we will not be able to put paid to this account, not because of blood-hunger but because of survival.

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