This excerpt is from a great article published in the Dallas Observer two days after the disaster. It is very touching and provides some insight into the terrorist issue. But if there is someone somewhere who believes that Muhammad would have approved of this carnage, then that person has deformed the entire Koran into a collection of truly satanic verses. But that person and that mental deformity are the enemy. We're at war.
War exacts an awful pragmatism.
It wants our freedoms and our luxuries. It wants our sons and daughters. It may want our lives. And the burden of reality is that the American way of life is worth all of those sacrifices and more. But war doesn't have to make us small or mean.