Massive Attacks inside the US

This is bad news. This is really bad news.

They human toll is clearly going to be huge. You cannot collapse the World Trade Center towers after 9:00AM on a workday without killing a lot of people.

It's a disaster.

And it's not over. The attacks aren't even over (as far as I know). But what comes after the attacks is likely to be brutal and vicious. On all sides. And while these events completely destroy the myth of "Fortress America", they do nothing to damage the U.S. capacity for destruction. At all. The U.S. now has an powerful motive for using that capacity, perhaps the strongest, hardest to deny motive it has ever had.

Restraint, the mere possibilty of restraint, will be nigh impossible to reference, much less acknowledge. It's hard even to think about.

But we have so much destructive power, and such overwhelming reasons for using it, we have to think about restraint.

We should not use nuclear weapons. This seems obvious, but it really must be stated.

It's hard to find words, any words. It's hard to think of what to do.