"wrong to kill Koreans, Chinese and Vietnamese"

[MalignD at aol.com]

<<How about the US with the support of its European and other coalition 
partners, slaughtering innocent Afghans in the current war, or don't they 
count?  As many as 3,500 civilian dead,  according to one count,  at least 
1,000 according to Le monde yesterday, little kids and old people dying every 
day because of hunger and exposure due to the war's interference with 
delivery of humanitarian aid to the refugees -- in a misguided military 
attack that has yet to capture the "mastermind" of the September 11 attacks 
or any of his top aides, an attack which appears to have done little more 
than let most of the mastermind's minions escape into the wilderness while 
leaving a humanitarian nightmare in its wake. >>

The war in Afghanistan has proven highly effective.  Three months since 
September 11 and it is all but over--the Taliban is removed, al Qaeda is 
severely damaged, latest reports suggest that bin Laden and his top aides are 
surrounded near Tora Bora.

The civilian dead owe their deaths primarily to a government that knowingly 
provided haven to terrorists, invited the war, and used the civilians as 
human protection during the fighting.  A moral reckoning of the cost of the 
dead needs be measured considering the thousands whose lives were already 
taken in the September attack, the lives of those who would be emperiled (and 
the world-destabilizing threat an unchecked al Qaeda network) had no action 
been taken.

I feel sorrow, as an American, for the Afghani citizens killed.  I feel no 
guilt.  And I have had no qualms about supporting the war.