I fail to understand the fascination with WMDs. Any country using WMDs against America or its allies would be bombed into oblivion. What's the mileage in that?

On the other hand, a handful of terrorists using box-cutters, garden insecticide, whatever, can make life very uncomfortable and disappear.

Our papers today carried an eyewitness account of 9/11 and one could feel again the anguish of the trapped, the bravery of firemen, the senseless waste of human life.

But don't Americans care that others feel similar anguish when their countries are bombed and their families killed in pursuit of one man or a small group?

IMHO, that is as unjustifiable as bombing a town in America because five escaped convicts are holed up there.