[TerryInRiverside]

We should understand the "alienation" and "sense of grievance" against us by various people in the Middle East.

Maybe it's time for people in the Middle East understand our grievance for the 6500+ victims. Now it's payback time.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

What Winston Churchill understood at the time, and Chamberlain did not, was that Hitler was driven by what Churchill called "currents of hatred so intense as to sear the souls of those who swim upon them." That was also what drove the men who drove the planes into the World Trade Center.

Today is Sept. 24th. Against American cries for retaliation, and misguided pacifists cries for negotiation, the Bush administration is doing what needs to be done in a wise and thorough fashion. No one can claim with any credibility that we are "rushing into war."

The Clinton clean-up is more extensive than any of us could dream.

When the terrorists and the host countries end their internal fighting...we'll mop up the rest of them!