I'm still of the opinion that and eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind, to paraphrase Ghandi. Interesting that you bring up Pearl Harbor... we needed a good excuse to get into that war, got us out of the depression, didn't it? And if I read the history books right, the Japanese did bomb Pearl Harbor in an unprovoked and horrible act... but we dropped atomic bombs on 2 of their cities. Somehow I think that we overstepped our ultimate retaliation in that one. It's pretty funny that we're doing all this arguing about something that none of us can do a damn thing about. I'm not going to change my opinion though and I'm not going to be a blind flag waver like so much of the rest of the country. We'll see what happens. But I can almost guarantee that there will still be terrorism and terrorists in the world when it's all said and done. From time to time those people will choose American targets. Perhaps I have higher ideals that are far from reality and perhaps violence begetting violence is the only way and perhaps I am foolish for not thinking it's a good thing that we're raining death on people that have nothing to do with the horrors that happened here. But I'm no more foolish than anyone that thinks the actions undertaken today are going to change a thing. Buddha32 now closes his mouth and waves his little American flag like a good citizen.