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I admit to crying at James Black's letter, too.

Really, the weight of the world is on the U.S.'s shoulders, and we, her thinking citizens, can't help but feel that weight in---as President Bush says---these "times of great consequence."

Possibly the entire world is about to change: for better, if we are successful militarily and thereafter, for worse, if we are not.

But Mr. Black is exactly correct. We are a nation organized around a deep streak of being moved to action over questions of "right and wrong."

The French have called our national character of looking at things as right or wrong and doing what must be done thereafter as simplistic.

Until it is time to come and pull their chestnuts out of the fire again. And you know what? As furious as the French have made us, and as personally we feel their betrayal, if they get in a jam---if Paris is bombed or whatever---you KNOW American troops will be there the next day, along with billions of dollars, to HELP.

And we'll do it knowing they will betray us again in the future. We will feel compassion for those who suffer, even if they hate us.

That's just how we Americans are.

hear, hear

The French think knowing the right wine is a form or morality. They confuse shallow fashion statements with seeking truth. The French are fools. Not one drop of American blood to save the French ever again. Let them speak German next time.

The French have called our national character of looking at things as right or wrong and doing what must be done thereafter as simplistic.

The French think knowing the right wine is a form or morality. They confuse shallow fashion statements with seeking truth. The French are fools. Not one drop of American blood to save the French ever again. Let them speak German next time.

The French have called our national character of looking at things as right or wrong and doing what must be done thereafter as simplistic.