To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down. - John Ashcroft

Some people in our country seem more concerned about respecting the dignity and privacy of criminals and terrorists than they are about having an airport full of people obliterated, or a completely booked hotel blown to bits. Perhaps they think, Let's not get so upset about attacks on our embassies or military bases. Maybe, they surmise, the terrorists have good reason for attacking us. We have no right to be harassing innocent people in our country. For some people, not even the grotesque images that filled our television screens after al Qaeda's blatant attacks on 9/11 seem enough to wake them out of their utopia feel-good world.

I'm trying to think of all the reasons that are appropriate for me to refuse to answer that question.

How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.