[arthurtuxedo]

Had a long response all ready to go, then the server crashed, and I didn't have the foresight to copy it to the clipboard before attempting to post. Ah well, here's the abridged Version.

Saxon - Sorry for being belligerent. You didn't deserve that. However, I think the point itself was valid. By helping out the nations of the perpetrators of the attack, are you not rewarding them and giving them something they want? Besides, the comparison with Germany becoming our friends doesn't really work. The situations are completely different. Germany was a country with millions of people, comprising the entire political spectrum in views, who had just lost a war. Their country was bombed out, devastated. The terrorists, on the other hand, are a small group of fundamentalist psychopaths who just won the greatest victory of any terrorist organization in recorded history.

dmm - That's the kind of blood-soaked solution we should be trying to avoid. Why should civilians who just happened to be of the same religion and similar nationalities of the terrorists have to pay the ultimate price for the actions of extremists?