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September 14, 2001

You're beautiful, that's for sure. You'll never ever fade. You're lovely but it's not for sure, that I won't ever change. And though my love is rare, Though my love is true; I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away. I don't know where my soul is, I don't know where my home is. (and baby all I need for you to know is) I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away. I don't know where my soul is , I don't know where my home is, All I need for you to know is... Your faith in me brings me to tears, Even after all these years. And it pains me so much to tell, that you don't know me that well. And though my love is rare, Though my love is true, I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away. I don't know where my soul is, I don't know where my home is. (and baby all I need for you to know is) I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away. I don't know where my soul is , I don't know where my home is. All I need for you to know is... It's not that I wanna say goodbye. It's just that every time you try to tell me that you love me, each and every single day I know, I'm going to have to eventually give you away. And though my love is rare, and though my love is true; hey I'm just scared, that we may fall through.

That song has a pretty nifty video if you get MTV I'm sure if you watch it for 15 minutes in the next couple days you'll get to see it, they play it almost as much as "drops of jupiter", and "Stuck in a Moment" Don't get me wrong, I think all three of these songs are great, it's just they are more over-played then the weather.

Well, here's where I offer a view that I know most of you won't really care for all that much...

After discussing it, killing off all the terrorists in the world is futile, it's simply not going to happen. In playing that game, we will find our self sitting in front of a whack-a-mole carnival attraction. Slamming the little club down harder and harder as the little bastard rodents poke their heads up for the world to see for moments at a time. And dog gone it, no matter what our high score gets up to, the fucking moles don't leave us alone. So, let's examine another option. We stop putting quarters into the game. We let the club swing by it's plastic teather, and go back to what the amusement park is really there for, spending 8 dollars on a hot dog and riding roller coasters.

We would all love to teach the terrorists a lesson or two about what Americans are made of, it's what we've always done. America has had a major war every 15 years or so since it was created, I'd say we're almost due right? Hell we should be so greatful to have someone give us a reason to roll tanks into their country to keep our record going.

An alternative solution that noone wants to do...

We clean up New York, we have our blood drives, we donate our dollars to help the victims families, and we leave it at that. It is possible to love your country and be humble about it. And if we want to avoid terrorists attacks, it is simply the best way to go. Terrorists don't go after the humble, it would be retarded. Instead they go after America, Isreal, Ireland, and the like. While we should take open declarations of war seriously, and respond to them with military resolve. The same can't really be said for terrorism. While it's all fine and dandy to arrest people that set off a bomb or hijack a plane, it would also be wise to start examining what it was we were or are doing that made them do it. I wouldn't call the horrible attack earlier this week a "random act of violence", to do so is to dilute reality. Responding to these attacks in a humble way will not be a sign of weakness on our part. It will be anything but. I think it's quite obvious to anyone on the planet that the United States has the resources to outgun, outman, and outfight any other group, country, or group of coutries out there. And they all know we are willing to do it if we have to. This stature was obtained in wars like the persian gulf war, WWII, and, at the very begining, the revolutionary war and the war of 1812. It was not obtained by chasing hijackers into Afghanastan and launching cruise missles at them. What I don't think the rest of the world is willing to acredit us with, is the ability to not do all these things. Everyone expects us to get into a big battle over this because we have been typecasted as the super-power that can't swallow it's pride. If we showed the wisdom to choose peace over bloodshed it would have a far greater impact on the world, and on all those terrorist groups, then getting our revenge.

This doesn't sound like the thing to do, but often times it's not always easy to do "the right thing". Deep down I think a part of you agrees with me here, so maybe try and let that part have it's day here.

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