9-11, Getting Even, Getting Out of Afghanistan

We meant well is about all you can ever say when you took on the mission to "get revenge" for someone - especially when the one you are getting revenge for is dead. Killing others or even the perpetrator does not honor the life of the one who was killed. Preventing similar deaths and nurturing peace seems more appropriate.

Getting even. I more than understand the emotion. But starting a blood feud is exactly what bin Ladin and his ilk wanted to do. A blood feud is never efficient, innocents are always killed and new wannabe warriors are grown to help bin Ladin to reach his real goal - to establish his autocratic version of fundamentalistic Islam that would force his view of the universe on others.

Staying in Afghanistan as we are, helps him reach his goal.

If we focus on getting him out of his lair and into solitary confinement, then we might get a result that's not perfect but loses fewer lives and gives us more honor, as well as time to give honor to those who died on 9-11.

clipped from www.washingtonpost.com Eight Years Later and Still No Revenge I knew that one of the towers had collapsed. I said to myself, "We'll get you, you bastards," but I was wrong. We haven't. Leaving Afghanistan has the feel of whistling in the dark. It's as frightening as staying. But when we go -- if we go -- we will have to acknowledge that we have broken our vow not only to Afghans who have supported us -- the Taliban, unlike us, will get its revenge -- but also with the dead of Sept. 11, 2001. We meant well. Sorry.