Afghans lost two million people in events leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union. People opposing the Taliban have lost more. Some of Abdul Haq's surviving relatives live in this country. Now you're talking about going after them en masse. Are you going to condemn attacks on them with the same intensity as you expect them to condemn attacks on us? How much more do you expect them to give for this country?
Fact: lots of our wonderful "moderate" moslems knew the hijackers very well, even living with them. However, all of them today claim that "they didn't know a thing".
Fact: it is impossible to tell the "moderate" moslems from the covert terrorists waiting for their mission.
Fact: we are in a war, and in a war you don't permit your enemy to shelter in sanctuaries, whether it is a mosque full of soldiers in Khandahar, or an "islamic center" in Trenton which produces jihadists like a factory.
What is the morality of accepting "collateral damage" in our war on terrorism in Afghanistan when our enemies shelter near the innocent, but refusing to go after the "sanctuary" of the terrorists in the USA while they make their final preparations for the next 9-11?
There is 1000 times more justification for the internment of arab moslems from named countries who have come to that USA in last ten years than there ever was for interning the Japanese.