Thanks, Whistle Stop.

What I fail to understand is why the Taliban places the life of Osama bin Laden over the lives of the entire population of Afghanistan. Is it just money? What is it? He's just a man. A Man, that's all.

I would be All For having him tried in a court of law. But they didn't want to do that. They had three weeks to talk and they didn't want to talk.

There was a famous Civil War general who used say to his opponents, here are my terms. You can surrender to my terms and be treated like gentlemen, or die. Those who didn't accept his terms found out the hard way that he wasn't foolin around. He didn't say, brother, let's sit down and hold hands and talk about why we're doing this. No. Accept the terms, or face the consequences.

In the words of another famous CW general, War is hell, boys.

Now. That being said... my personal quandary in all of this is... I don't hate anybody. I have never hated anyone in my whole entire life. Dislike? Sure. I try to stay away from people I don't like, and when I can't, I try to be polite. Once in awhile, I make a new friend. But I have never hated anyone, or wished pain upon anyone. It is simply something I Do Not Comprehend. It Does Not Register on my radar screen.

The other thing is, I believe in the balance of the universe. If there is going to be peace, there also has to be war. If there is going to be love, there also has to be hate. This is even in the Bible, y'all, and wasn't it Pete Seeger who wrote a song about it? So while I understand that all these things must happen, I have a hard time balancing them within myself, if that makes any sense. There needs to be an action on our part but I feel for the Afghan people. What do they call that? Cognitive dissonance?

I don't know I don't know I don't know