So I went to the antiwar rally today...

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Weakly presented? Who cares? The opportunity arose to do something the free peoples of the world should be doing routinely every week: extirpate a dictator and replace his dictatorship with a real democracy, the most legitimate sort of government.

Is not nearly all of the world's misery generated by the oppressions of totalitarian governments, unresponsive to their subject peoples' real needs? And do not totalitarian regimes always oppress? That's practically what they exist to do, window-dressing and rationalizations aside.

Therefore I pose this question: when the last dictator is strangled on the eviscerated guts of the last national chief of secret police, how much of the world's miseries will have fled?

I only think the resulting happy condition of worldwide democracy will last for but a generation or two, but this is at least enough time to get a good momentum on.

But you must admit its also more complex than "Iraq launched a war against America."

And at no point did I ever say any such thing. Iraq is not a separate war; it is a seamless part of the overall War On Terror; it is a campaign in it. Terrorists, whose longterm, sustaining motivation is their noxious religious bigotry, undertook over twenty years of bombings and attacks to start a war with us, from the Beirut Marine barracks in 1983 on. With 9/11, we Americans came to a full understanding of this. Those fanatics and bigots have sown the wind; let them reap the whirlwind until WE are satisfied they can't and won't do it any more. For generations we've been the longsuffering target of every damned idiot with a bomb and a grudge. Let's make sure we send the damned idiots to Gehenna, wholesale and on a regular basis. Let severed terrorist testicles be washed into storm drains in a stream of their supporters' hearts' blood. Those guys want to try terror? Fine. Bury them with pork sausage stuffed into their mouths.

Get the impression I don't like those guys? Remember that you don't see effective, sustained international terrorism without national sponsorship. The terrs may be hard to locate and hit, but their national sponsors can be found out and uprooted.

A good world is a world full of vigorous democracies who like hunting totalitarians and totalitarians' lackeys.