This is not a time for factionalism. Fighting among us is exactly what terrorists, like Bin Laden, want. They know that our freedoms are important to us, and so will attempt to use that fact to our advantage.
Cultural Jihad: Get off your high horse. Treat others with respect. I have extended more than one olive branch to you this week. Here I hand another.
DAnconia55: Do not make light of this tragedy, even if you expected it.
Conservative Till I Die: I will not FOAD, because I am your countryman. We must learn to live with each other.
That Poppins Woman: Of course, our foreign policy does not exist in a vacuum. The precipitous cause is the action of the hijackers, not our actions in Kosovo however flawed. This is revenge, it is not self defense.
All:
Please take some care. I do not like to see us fight. Let us not forget who the real enemy is here. He is not Patrick Buchanan, nor is he Harry Browne.
Do not allow your outrage at this attack, turn into animousity of your countrymen. This is exactly the goal of such an attack, to sow the seads of dissent.
That's SOP with the ideologues. Sheesh. How many times do we hear the ideologues spouting off their nonsense about how everyone is conspiring to rob them of their rights, and how evil the U.S. government is, how they're all evil jack booted thugs, yada, yada, yada. We expect any minute to hear one of them claim the planes were sent in by the owners of the towers for the insurance money, or by the CIA in order to cause riot and confusion in order to invoke martial law. Let the ideologues renounce their moral-liberalism, and then the goals of the terrorists will have been thwarted.