However, I specifically didn't like your city versus country argument. It's pointless and has no merit. You somehow seem to feel that those that live in the countryside are more bloodthirsty than those in the city because they have no danger attached to their lives. That's where the anger came from. People that live in the country aren't all redneck bloodthirsty hicks, any more than all people who live in cities are prima donna cosmopolitans.
I've lived near the Pentagon for over 10 years. I refuse to move out of my home because of a terrorist attack. That's neither smart or stupid. It is what it is. I happen to live there. Circumstances worked that way, and thus I'm there. Just as people happen to live in London during the blitz, and on and on. Should people have their living arrangements dictated to them by terrorists?
Consider the apology graciously accepted. I too should apologize for playing the urban vs. rural card. That was a cheap shot and I'm sorry for it. I think I just lost my patience because so many people from Texas and Idaho were telling me that I was a traitor and should move out of the country or be placed in an internment camp because I wasn't being blood thirsty enough on other threads.
I'll end this post with a quote from another thread on just what I believe we should do to resolve this mess. I believe it would be a real stretch to call my views "pacifist". That being said, I will still defend anybody's right to either say "Give peace a chance" or "Nuke 'em all the diaper heads back to the stone age".
My opinion on how to deal with the horrible pain that has been inflicted on us is very similar to how Michael Corleone took care of his enemies at the end of the 1st Godfather movie. Take out the heads of the 5 families.
I think we should kick our intelligence into overdrive (it seems like we're doing a pretty good job of that right now) and make a list of all the major players that are behind this evil Islamic terrorism. We should then eliminate their presence from the face of the Earth. We need to be very careful in just how we do this though because once we've eliminated these enemies, we must then "make the peace". If we take out too many innocents we're just going to make a new puddle in which more terrorists larvae will be hatched with enough inertia behind it to cause more heartache and tears shed by us.
Our ultimate goal should be peace and this peace should not be felt just by us Americans but also by the neighbors and countrymen of the nations that these terrorists sprang forth from or the cycle will continue.
Last time it was bringing airplanes down and killing over 6000 people with the equivilant of pointed sticks and boxes of Cheerios strapped to their cheasts. The next time they may hit us with biological warfare or low grade nukes in a few of our major cities. Let's not end up like Sonny "They hit us so we hit them back" Corleone. Let's be reasonable about this like Michael was. I'd rather die of old age sitting in my lawnchair in my backyard then be gunned down on the causeway during some blood soaked cycle of violence.