>It's absolutely impossible for me to imagine a fit punishment for the animals that perpetrated such a bizarre act. A part of me can't think of anything but absolutely flattening whatever country hosts these terrorists, but then death seems akin to mercy for them.

Sorry to interrupt, but what makes you better than them? I am ashamed that my nation has given birth to a bunch of communist generals and politicians who flattened just a few cities - and they should be punished, IMO. But, leaving out any sort of double standards, what's the difference between that, this today, and flattening a country? In the size of the club?

>I'm just grateful for being a night person (just like mom), who's unable to reach acceptable levels of consiousness before 10AM. Otherwise I would've been in the World Trade Center today at 9AM to pay a credit card bill.

I know the feeling. The only time I was grateful for my city being economically degraded was when I realized it meant there was nothing worth bombing in it.

So cool down and don't get into hating anyone. I know it's hard, and you're welcome to vent here. Still, the whole concept of 'rogue countries' is a very bad thing in general, equally bad as 'war for humanitarian goals'. Who will judge which nations are rogue? And I've already seen the idea being sold on TV here. Mass media are already preparing the nation for it. Remember this when you see your neighbor being brought home in a coffin.