Hi Frank,

You wrote:
>"You said: "I must disagree. These militants hate everything about YOU. No amount of peaceful discussion will ever make them change. They hate America. They want YOUR children to go to bed as crying orphans because YOU are dead. They will then bomb the orphanage to rub salt in the wound."

But why, WHY do they hate us?
Hate is everywhere, from the Nazis to the neo-Nazi's to separatism and segregation.

>"I refuse to try to understand the mentality of their "Desperation". In fact I don't think they are desperate at all. They are simply consumed by hatred."

I agree with you, and I would hope every ally of ours gets together special forces and goes after ALL terrorists groups.
A worldwide seek and find to isolate and take away their power bases. But not done in the way to create more enemies.
Not "retribution" for the sake of killing any and all that get in our way, or whether this be a country who refuses to get imvolved.

"We will and we must take a more influential role in the middle east. The middle east has proven its own inability to handle her affairs."

And talks are already underway. Maybe the seriousness of last weeks' attacks will bring us all together like nothing before.