THE BELL TOLLS AGAIN: I've been to Bali, with my old friend Max Kennedy, almost fifteen years ago. It's a blessed little place - about as quiet and secluded and out of it as any place on earth. A mixture of Hindu culture, ancient animism, stoners from Australia, and skinny, pale Euro-hikers, it was a little bohemia all its own. Now these monsters have struck again, incinerating innocents in their murderous religious rage. There is no good here. And although Mike Kinsley will scoff at me for saying it, there is much evil. The target is not accidental. Having fun, mixing cultures, partying till dawn are all wonderful human activities that these dour murderers loathe. They hope that by targeting the "sinful," they might even be excused by less extreme Muslims. The only good news is that Indonesia may now better understand what it's up against; and the full inclusion of a moderate Muslim country against these Islamofascists will help greatly. The Brits and Australians, who were again among the dead, have already been spectacular in the war on terror. But perhaps now that more Germans have been murdered, Chancellor Schroder will rethink his hostility to confronting Saddam and his terrorist allies.

-- Anonymous, October 14, 2002

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Fox and Friends has just pointed out that Saturday was the anniversary of the Cole bombing.

-- Anonymous, October 14, 2002