Wow. The second time I've been called naive in two weeks. I must be slipping or something...
As to your points: What makes you think I'm non-violent. If those who committed these acts can be found, they should be captured and brought to trial (if possible) and killed outright if not.
If this is the result of a foreign government, then we should immediately declare war upon that country and thrash them until they surrender unconditionally. Our conditions should then be just, as it was with Japan who attacked us by surprise. We must not give in to our lust for revenge and destruction least we become the very thing we hate (and don't for a moment think it can't happen).
The worst thing we can do is blindly lash out and destroy in our grief and rage. If we do that, we may not be condemned by other nations, be we may be condemned by God for our hypocracy.
Finally, if I were a good Christian (which I'm not), I would say that it is for God to dispence justice and that this would be a time, more than any other, when we should display our Christian virtues such as Jesus showed to us.
I can only be so reasoned and calm because no one I know was harmed or killed by this act, and I do not identify myself or my country with NY, the WTC, or any other physical thing or person. To me, America is an idea, and even if she is somehow destroyed, that idea will live on somewhere, even if we aren't around to see it.
This is the only way I can remain calm in the face of evil: I believe that God will judge everything and that Good will always triumph, even if it does so in ways I cannot myself imagine.
I trust God even as I believe in Him.
Tuor