I was quick to anger; couldn't help it. I understand that most of you may disagree with what I said yesterday, but I stand by it for the most part. The World War III stuff might have been pushing my envelop for prediction. Of course we need to gather information and proceed with knowledge and forethought. All of NATO should act on this together as a checks and balance system, to make sure we are pursuing a just course of action. Countries like Afghanastan and Pakistan who use their government and intellegence agencies to train terrorists must be stopped though. We cannot sit back and let this type of organized terrorism keep growing. We have been warned for years by the countries that are consistantly victimized by this, but understandably we could not comprehend the true urgency of their pleas. I am and will always be a pacifist and a supporter of human rights. Every measure should be taken to preserve these ideals, but I believe we have a responsibility to ourselves and the world to lead the way in ending these intolerable organizations of zealot murderers. I hope that we can use a surgical approach to this, but somehow we have to get the job done. Perhaps the best way to achieve this would be with the aid of those countries accused of harboring terrorists and even with those that are supporting and training these types of organizations. Ideally, those nations involved in these activities would work side by side with us to correct the situation. However, I don't believe that it will be that easy.