cellio | frightened

Y'know, I've been feeling for the last few days that we need to respond, in a violent but targetted way, once we actually have a target. (We also need to make some long-overdue changes in our foreign policy, in my opinion.) But I'm frightened by the progression in Bush et al's talk from appropriate response to an "all-out war on evil" or whatever he's calling it. We're going to try to root out every terrorist in the world and nuke every country that supports them? This is crazy talk. We are incapable of this, and it's not our decision to make. If world governments united in this larger goal that might be different, but I worry that we are about to make an even bigger foreign-policy mistake than we've made in the past.

We can't return to the pre-WWI days when our goal (as Washington put it) was to be friendly with everyone and allied with no one. But we also shouldn't strive to be the big bully in the public school yard, either.

I truly hope that a middle ground is possible, where we do not roll over and let the terrorists get away with murder, but we also don't launch WW III.