"Despite knowing full and well the events of Tuesday, sad as they may be, I will per my personal policy *not* get involved in some flaming the middle east issue, or discussing mass genocide on certain ethnic groups or religious groups."
Hear hear. We Americans have a righteous anger right now, but we must remember that the people who did this were NOT representative of all Moslems, all Arabs, etc. I have Arab-American friends who are just as shocked, disgusted, etc., as other Americans. And I'll bet many younger Arab-Americans will fight with our armed services in the coming war. I hope that war will be precise, and totally disable all terrorist networks without too many innocent casualties--there will always be SOME innocent casualties in a war, but I hope care is taken to minimize these while maximizing damage to the infrastructure of terror itself.... And I hope bin-Laden or whoever is responsible is hauled off to one of our prisons (I hope a state prison like Attica, New York) and put in with the general population... he'll be everyone's b*tch there, just like the child molestors, and spend the rest of his life in obscure humiliation.... It would be more punishment for him than sending him to Allah (who would probably send him to hell, though)....
But emphasize PRECISION--do it swiftly, cleanly, and brutally against those responsible or associated, and our victory will be complete.... Randomly kill innocents, and we will be no better than they are, and they will be able to say that....