Thoughts....

A couple of years ago, I saw an interview on TV with a young Israeli woman grieving over the loss of a relative to a suicide bombing. The imagery continues to stick in my mind. She was sitting under a tree wearing a flower summer dress, as she grieved and cried and warned the world that suicide bombings of civilians wasn't just an Israeli problem but one the rest of us would face.

Despite this being after 9/11, I pooed pooed her sentiments since I thought that the Israel-Palestine conflict was over land and would remain contained and eventually settled somehow. I had faith that people are reasonable and rational.... but I was wrong.

There is death cult within our midst and this cult wraps itself in Muslim religious fervor. When a patient has cancer, the disease has to be removed. Ariel Sharon was right to fight this disease with stiff medicine. George Bush is right to fight this with stiff medicine, and we too have to learn that we must fight this war with stiff medicine. We cannot win by caving into this barbaric bloodthirsty spawn of Satan but to meet it head-on with determination. I am now completely there.