i drove my car today with no problems whatsoever. no traffic, no rain, and most important - no median.

"at the same time my feelings of sadness and patriotism don't translate into automatic support for an all-out military assault on anyone and everyone that the white house doesn't like"

:..it seems important for us to remember that responding to terrorism with bloodshed on an even larger scale will only make us feel less safe. every new escalation of violence provokes more of the same. it is not unpatriotic to talk of peace" - jay walljasper, utne reader: nov-dec 2001.

"darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that...the chain reaction of evil...must be broken or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation" - martin luther king

these words above speak the thoughts that i have been unable to verbalize myself. as this war has continued, i have grown more frustrated with the human race. we have been on this planet thousands of years, and we have come so far. yet, we cannot seem to find respect and understanding for each other. are we in a downward spiral of the demise of homo sapiens? will we cause our own extinction? we have destroyed so many other species, i hope it is not now our turn.

there is not a 'right' way to fight this war. i don't have the answers, nor does anybody else. but that does not mean we all have to blindly jump on bush's bandwagon. will we ever see peace? i know that there are many holes in my ideas - however, i cannot bring myself to support what is currently happening. i wish i could explain myself more eloquently, as well as more clearly. this is the best i can seem to do.