This is war, not a pleasure cruise. Apparently you and the "reporters" at CNN need to get your head out of your collective asses and see that they do not see any difference between you or a soldier in their backyard.
They are either all with us, or all against us. Choose sides carefully....there's no going back now. FYI: Nuclear weapons have been approved by this government for deployment in the middle east if the situation calls for it. Growing up with the middle east becoming an ever-increasing problem which they seem unwilling to solve themselves, shows that a final solution would be more appropriate. I could care less who calls themselves innocent, as their children continue the butchering of other "innocents". Would you care so much about a crackhead [who just robbed your house and killed your family] if the cops were beating him like Rodney King?
Why should the US care one way or the other what the Saudi's or the Afgani's under the Tali-wackers think. They are the enemy, which they have proven, time and time again. How would you deal with the enemy, slap them on the hand and tell them not to do that anymore? Probably, but they'd be back tomorrow attacking. If not you, then your neighbor.
Then it appears that, in this one point, you are correct.
They [all Afghan citizens] are just as guilty of the crime if they had piloted the aircraft themselves.
If this is true, then by your own incredibly stupid logic, YOU are just as guilty as any American politician who bin Laden has a grievance against, and you and I (and all American citizens, such as those in the World Trade Center) are legitimate targets for destruction. In which case, why would you oppose al Qaeda?
I could care less who calls themselves innocent, as their children continue the butchering of other "innocents".
Wait a minute -- was that you who said that, or was it bin Laden? It's starting to all sound like the same source.
Would you care so much about a crackhead [who just robbed your house and killed your family] if the cops were beating him like Rodney King?
Such a person, obviously, would be guilty. You seem to have a problem distinguishing the concept of guilt and innocence.
Let me try and spell it out for you. People who do bad and evil things, such as murder people, are guilty, and deserve punishment. People who don't do bad things are innocent. (Can you say "innocent"?)
Decent people don't purposefully murder the innocent.
How would you deal with the enemy, slap them on the hand and tell them not to do that anymore?
Destroy the enemy, of course.
Innocent, unarmed civilians in another country who have no intention of harming us and no means to do so, who are solely concerned with how they can find enough rice to feed their families today, are not the enemy.
Unless, of course, you're Osama bin Laden.