Kellog, thank you for posting this and tell your friend that I thank him for writing this.  It was informative.  I did not know many of the things that he talked about.  He is right in many regards.  As I sit and write this, at the left of my computer screen on MSN, I see:  Bust wants bin Landen "dead or alive".  What a scarey place this country and other countrys are in right now.  Regardless of the retaliation we take, innocent lives will be lost.  This saddens me greatly.  I do not know the answer.  What is the peaceful solution?  Is there one?  It is hard to believe that one man can cause so much upheaval all around the world.  That one man can cause so much hate.  Has he already won?  I cringe when I think that many more people will die.  I cringe when I hear "We want blood."  Maybe if my brother,sister, mother, father, or friend died in the Sept 11th attack, I may want blood too.  Maybe not.   The fact is we are all a little scared of the consiquences that will be bestowed across the world.  There are many tears of sadness to come I'm afraid.  It will test many of us.  It will test our personal moral core.