Yes, but what point? WE may think we're making a stand that 'terrorism will not be tolerated. THEY on the other hand, given past reactions, would likely take the view that the US is being high handed and imperialistic, enforcing US standards on Muslim countries, and that any methods possible to curb US aggression are to be lauded.Violence IS NOT THE ANSWER. WAR IS NOT EITHER.
Are we a civilized nation, or a nation willing to act in the tradition of those terrorists we're claiming to despise by obliterating people who MAY NOT HAVE DONE ANYTHING?
The warmongering is getting truly frightening. The local paper here carried the huge banner headline "TARGET: BIN LADEN". It wasn't until you got into the back of the story, buried at the rear of the section, that the story ever mentioned that Bin Laden is denying responsibility, and that while some of the hijackers had 'ties' to his organization, there apparently is also a link to an unnamed German radical organization. Further, every effort was taken to paint Bin Laden as an independent terrorist, dedicated to destroying the US through his entire life - it'd apparently confuse the populace to mention that we trained him, gave him truckloads of money and weapons, and pointed him at the USSR in the past.
Again - he IS wanted for planning other attacks against the US and other nations. He HAS claimed responsibility for those. There's a decent chance that he will be found to be behind the NY attacks as well. But he has NOT been charged with this, beyond the hysteria that the public is being whipped into. By all means - he should be punished for his actions. But only the ones that he's been proven to have been behind.
Until proof is delivered that he was or was not behind the NY attacks, any talk of 'revenge' against him for those attacks is premature and on the same level as the terrorist mentality that started it. We just happen to have the 'moral high ground' and an army big enough to pretty much do whatever we want.
WAIT FOR PROOF. WAIT FOR JUSTICE, NOT BLIND REVENGE.
M