A War That Can Never Be Won: "The bombast has increased with the bombs. We saw two disturbing escalations this week. The explosions that devastated the British consulate and the HSBC bank in Istanbul mark a significant widening in the choice of targets by those Islamist radicals who use terror to express their hatred of British and US policy in Iraq and the Middle East. The Blair/Bush response reached an equally alarming new level of ferocity. "

This is an important perspective. Bush and Bin Ladin are coins in the same currency--the currency of violence. They play off each other and the result is an escalation of violence. What is the result? As Ghandi said, "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

We have to stop the violence, not escalate it. We have to target the terrorists, but you can't do that with an army. Terrorism is a crime and needs to be addressed as such. It is not a country to be attacked, as this author points out."
- posted by geoff @ #