I'm also very strongly on the side against this 'war'. For many reasons - Kat sums some of it up nicely, but there are so many other reasons why.

I'm convinced, unfortunately, that this was inevitable. That this is a war created from political expediency on top of many other grievous mistakes. That our 'leadership' bowed to the 'need' to go out and 'do something' rather than attempt any other routes. I honestly don't believe that there EVER was a moment when anything but war was contemplated.

I am also profoundly disturbed by what the DoD pushes out in the various press conferences. My personal "Favorite" so far was one of the various PIOs announcing that this war would last until "all terrorist groups and those who support them" were destroyed. All nice and good - but who's defining 'terrorist group'? Who's defining who we do and don't go after for 'supporting' them? After all, the CIA has a LONG track record of supporting terrorist groups, yet I don't imagine we'll be seeing Patriot missles launched into Virginia any time in the near future.

I'm also disturbed that this is a war that has no truly visible endpoint beyond when the attackers announce "we won!". Bush (and his succesors) can concievably keep this up for as long as there are humans left to attack. Turned Afghanistan to glass? Well, Libya's right around the corner. Leveled them? Look out Saddam! Finished the entire African continent and made the Middle East glow for the next hundred millenia? Belfast is looking pretty violent. Hey, what about those Filipino commies who killed that guy from Corona? A few well placed missles into Manila ought to straighten THEM out! Hey, we've reduced the rest of the world to rubble! WOW! White supremacists in Montana! Black militant groups in Atlanta! Chicano separatists in Los Angeles! Bomb them all!

It's a war against a criminal act, and I see it as having about the same probability of a quick success as the "War on Drugs" did. This is a horrific thing to pass down to the next generation - something with great potential to be a hundred times more horrific than the WTC attacks. Look at the news - all we've done is create a new legion of 'radicals' who believe that the western world is evil. But now, they've got a live missle coming at them live on CNN to stoke the fires even higher.

M