<HTML>Katherine,
I think perhaps that my retoric must paint a picture of me in the minds of some that is a distortion of my position - ether that or I am opposed by a display of passivism unseen sinse the inter-war period of the 20th century - as I hardly feel my point of view is out of step with the National feeling.
One American senetor advocated the nuclear anihilation of Afganistan!!! I would hardly concur with such a position. Mine has been all along that civilian casualties must be minimized - but accepted as a natural reality of war.
Frankly, how exactly does the world expect the United States to react to a military incursion of its soverienty designed to terror bomb its civilians and resulting in the deaths of more than 5000 persons - and threatening the very foundation of the American economy and military?
If it does turn out that a State did sponsor this flagrant act of aggression, that Government must be *wiped from the face of the earth* regardless of the cost. Many Americans will give their lives in pursuit of this goal. Only because we know that to do otherwise is condemn our children to ultimate destruction.
They will not stop until they have killed us all.
ISHMAEL</HTML>
