>I think you and I see eye to eye on this. Freedom cost too much to let a few terrorist punks take it away. Like I said, let's take this to them and make them pay dearly.

Like the majority of the world, I too am outraged by what has happened & am trying to understand what can be justly done.

I know that there is immense pressure for something to be done, but at the moment nobody knows who is responsible. To take precipitous action based on unfounded presumptions could have catastrophic consequences not just for the US, but for the entire world.

One of the responses in this thread was to "bomb the crap out of them" - but who ? What if they were aided by US citizens, you going to bomb the crap out of their home town, just to show Americans that terrorism will not be tolerated wherever they come from - as has been proposed by your own president.

Because of the action of a few extremists, do you bomb the crap out of civilians in their country too ?

You say, "let's take this to them and make them pay dearly", how do you make a group of people who are prepared to die for their beliefs pay dearly. You can't use the threat of death, do you use the threat of making their families suffer - doesn't this make you as bad as them.

If it does turn out to have been Osama bin Laden that was responsible, how much responsibility is the US going to take, it has been widely reported for nearly 20 years that he received CIA training & funding, when he was fighting the communist government in Afghanistan. This was acceptable to the US, but from the Afghanistan government, he would have been viewed as a terrorist.

There are calls to assassinate known & suspected terrorists before this sort of atrocity can occur again, but who decides who is a terrorist & who is a freedom fighter. Would the US have sanctioned the assassination of Nelson Mandela, a suspected terrorist in South Africa.

I apologise for a long response, but I am angry & confused. What I want to see is justice done & I can't see any simple solution that does not cause suffering to other innocent victims (this will be sanitised as "acceptable collateral damage", which is not acceptable).