> Meanwhile, I have been trying to get as
much information as I have possibly been
able to get about the attacks. After seeing the
second plane crash into the tower, however,
millions of times from millions of angles, I am
quite sick of seeing it any more.

So am I. So are a lot of us.

> The UK press really went over the top - to the
extent that every single paper had exactly the
same picture on it covering the whole page. I
got a chance to read the Guardian, the Times
and the Telegraph today, and they all came to
the same conclusions - it was a monstrosity,
Osama bin Laden (or whatever his name is)
is to blame whether he says so or not and the
US is going to get its revenge on whoever
co-ordinated the attacks.

"Revenge" isn't what we want. Well, that may
not be true, but revenge is not what we
*should* want. Killing thousands of their
innocent civilians in retribution for our
thousands dead wouldn't make me feel
anything but worse. What we want is to bring
the guilty to justice, and that's a lot harder to
accomplish than petty revenge.

> All of this is understandable - everyone
needs a scrapegoat when something as
audacious and attrocious as this happens -
but no-one should jump to conclusions. To do
so would be like a playground feud, only with
people's lives involved.

Agreed.

I listened breifly to the Rush Limbaugh show
while I was out getting lunch this afternoon,
and heard a listener who had called in
advocating his belief that we should "nuke
'em." His rationale was that these people, like
the Japanese in WW2, are willing to die to the
last man in the fight for their cause. He said
we need to show them that we're willing to
take their last man, and that using nuclear
weapons on them is the only way to do this,
just like using the atomic bomb on the
Japanese was the only way to end WW2.

I personally don't agree with this idea. We
aren't facing a centrally-located enemy like we
were during WW2. These types of terrorist
groups seem to be spread out all over the
world. It seems to me that it would be
impossible to use doomsday weaponry to
strike at these orgnanizations without also
doing irreparable collateral damage to
ourselves and other innocents in the process.
Your thoughts?

Gri"now, if we could Duke Nuk'em...that'd be
different"shny