trying to grok

The WTC's dead. Get over it.

America will win. Get over it.

My comment was inspired by the "Wellstone's dead, get over it" bumperstickers that are being driven around Minnesota. I guess they're cruel too.

One way to take my original comment is that we cannot keep using violence to justify violence. Yes, it was a sad day, and a pretty building, and lots of good folks were killed, but a rational response to that has yet to be delivered by our leaders.

I'm pretty sure they don't hate us for our freedoms. I'm pretty sure that if we don't try to understand what's really happening - what people on the other side of the line on the map think and feel and how we can all get along on this planet together - that things can only get worse.

Please realize that Iraq is not going well for us, through no fault of the brave people doing their duty over there. They and we both been mislead by the specific folks in power here. Our leader's shown the world that there are limits to our intelligence gathering ability, our diplomatic skills, and, yes, our military power.

I think the 28 characters I typed can't possibly be as cruel as what our power, wrongly applied, is doing and continues to do, while we cheer.

"The blood of one mother is the same as any other"

Moor, we *can* win. This just isn't the way. The way we're on is the way to extinction.