The Logic Off Topic list

I want to apologize for my comments. I didn't mean to fan the flames. And 
it has been very heartening how much support we have recieved from our 
European friends, and others around the world. 

I completely agree that the US must kill innocent people of any kind, and 
that Bush is a bit scary. We can only hope and trust that these leaders 
are as moral as they claim to be, and have the wisdom to do what is right 
- and as the same time, protect us from further danger. We don't have the 
luxury of waiting 10 years to catch Obomba Sin Laden, while he wreaks 
havoc in Chicago, San Franscico, Seattle. Miami, Los Angles, Paris, 
London, Bonn, Rome, etc.

But please, this is not the time for the usual anti-American comments. 
America is not to blame for every problem in the world. We're human 
beings, and we make mistakes but we have done much good in the world in 
our own bumbling ways. Is Russia so saintly, with the thousands they have 
killed in Chechnya and Afganistan? Is China so holy, with the 3,000 of 
their own people killed in Tianamen Square and their repeated threats to 
cause a war to forcibly take Taiwan?

Maybe its a mistake to support Israel, station troops in Saudi, and 
maintain sanctions against Iraq (these are the issues the Arabs site), 
but no amount of disagreement warrants attacks on civilians like this. 
(The irony of American troops protecting Mecca and Medina against the 
threat of other Arabs seems to never be considered.) Actually, some Arabs 
and Pakistanis blame the European powers for setting up the current day 
borders of the Arab states and India - something the US had very little 
to do with.

A commentator mentioned the other day, that Irish Republican Army 
terrorists were polite enough to phone the building that was about to be 
blown up to reduce casualties. That world is now gone. 

If you're not happy with the way things are in the world, lobby your own 
government to conduct itself as you would like. I may not like the fact 
that my neighbor parks his crap car next to my window and my view out my 
living room window is of an oil stained driveway, but thats life.