I don't understand how people can be marching for peace at a time like this. We did not start this thing but we will finish it, and THEN we'll talk peace, hopefully shape it. We did a decent job with Japan in the 40's but it didn't happen overnight.

Awful things happen, and they don't come much more awful than what happening on September the 11th. People have to try and prevent them happening again. Nobody is disagreeing about that. The thing is, there are some thing people can do that help, and some thing they can do that don't help and make things worse.

And that's what peace vigils and marches are about. Trying to avoid the mistakes that will make it worse. There is a lot of room for disagreement, and discussion about what need to be done, and we've had the Mudcat full of it for days now. It's no different in the outside world. It's important for people to listen to the points of view of people they disagree with because it's terribly easy to make mistakes that can't ever be set right.

Preventing terrorism is one thing. Justice is one thing. Vengeance is something else, and though it's a natural enough response to feel vengeful, it is never right to direct our actions by that desire. Never.