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Sucker them into telling you that the proper response to the attack is to send foreign aid to improve the Afghanistani's lives instead of bombing them. Then explain that that's what we HAVE been doing, and it didn't work.

Point out that our "anti-Islam" foreign policy of late has included bombing putative Christians to protect Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo, and to protect Muslims from other Muslims in Kuwait, an "imperialistic" attack if there ever was one.

Ask them why they're so durn-sure that Israel will do anything we want them to viz. the Palestinians when the Israelis have already used Americans (Pollard) as spies against us and bombed our ship the U.S.S. Liberty?

Ask them why they think this is similar to Vietnam when we haven't fired a shot yet and have taken thousands of innocent casualties.

Ask them why freeing Tibet from Communist domination is cool but freeing Afghanistan wasn't.

Ask them if reflexive anti-Americanism isn't the real root of the problem.

Ask them why liberals are such mindless, lockstep, goosestepping jerks.