It's the content, LH, it's the content. HTML be damned!

I read that article and it seemed pretty bang on to me. But I consider the question of bin Laden, et al completely separate from the arguments that would go on about the economics of oil and the ecological questions of whether we should be using fossil fuels or not.

I know you can't actually argue by analogy, but sometimes it's useful for illustration.

If you consider the world and all its peoples to be a single living organism, what we're seeing now is a growth of cancer. Like all cancers, if left unattended it will consume the whole organism or change it into something so grotesque as to be unrecognizable. Why not cut it out, surgically, before you have to lop off whole limbs to stop it?

If the U.S. went in with all it's might and killed everything in their path, I'd get pretty upset and oppose it as vigorously as I opposed the Vietnam war, but that's not what I see happening. I was absolutely amazed at the restraint shown and the limited actions taken. If they don't work at first, I expect them to continue, but I don't expect them to escalate to blanket bombing. That would piss off a lot of Muslims and would be counterproductive.

cheers,

david