It's hard to drag people all the way from the 12th century into the 21st.
They'd rather blow everyone to kingdom come than to live in the 21st century. There's no playing nice with these whackos. It's their way or they slaughter the entire world. The question is how long do we play patty cake, accomodate, appease, when we know they won't honor anything they sign. They lie, cheat and kill to get what they want. At some point we have to take the gloves off and treat these guys worse than felons in American prisons. So, I'd like to know what would spur us into rational thought and purposeful action. The next terrorist attack here with ten or twenty thousand innocents dead? Last night Bush barely hinted at the extent of the free world's danger when he said terrorists want to take over the entire Middle East. Come on, they're not stopping at the edge of the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, Pacific or any other body of water, large or small. Perceived weakness emboldens them and they rush around, strapping on bigger bombs. I'm hoping Bush understands this (I think he does), and that we're being given small bites of info to digest so he doesn't scare us. It's like training your dog. First we learn to sit, stay, then gradually, we're shown the tough stuff: the long stay, etc..