It seems that the Taliban have caved, and the USA's bombing strategy was a brilliant success. To the best of our knowledge, not one US or British soldier lost his/her life in combat fighting the Taliban. And that is a very good thing.
If the State of Israel were to discover the cure for cancer, aids, heart disease and whatever else that ails humanity. I think much of the world would still find a reason for Israel not to exist.
My late mother and her sisters had a saying: "Smarty had a party". What they meant, was that every fool can be a "genius" under the best of conditions.
The official policy of Canada's William Lyon McKenzie King's Liberal Government concerning the immigration of Jews; before, during and after World War II was simple: "None is too many".
As a once prominent civil rights activist in Quebec, and a former well listened to Montreal radio talk show host on CIQC; nothing in the media bothers me more than shoddy and inaccurate journalism.
There was no question in my mind that Israel was going to pay a price because of what the Arab Islamic fundamentalists did. And regrettably, I was not wrong.
The comparison goes this way. You can't blame the Christian community for the terror attack launched by McVeigh, any more than you can blame the Islamic Arab world for what happened to the USA on September 11, 2001.