How can a war be truly just when it involves the daily killing of civilians, when it causes hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children to leave their homes to escape the bombs, when it may not find those who planned the September 11 attacks, and when it will multiply the ranks of people who are angry enough at this country to become terrorists themselves?

"Daily killing of civilians"? "Multiply the ranks of people who are angry enough"?

True. There were some misguided bombs. But how many, and how frequently? Really, the truth or falsity of that is subject to how much you believe whatever the Taliban selectively showed the reporters they allowed in.

False. Those people in the streets didn't look very sad to see the Taliban gone. Looks like, if anything, we may have a few more friends in Afghanistan than we did before.

False premise: we were going directly after those who planned the Septempber 11 attacks. Primarily, we were going after the regime who was sheltering and providing aid and comfort to the organization that did; even if we did get binLaden himself, there's the rest of his organization to be dealt with.

Methinks he is rather uncritically sucking down Taliban propoganda.

And what does he propose we do instead? He proposes we go to the UN and try law enforcement. (Yup, that worked real well with the USS Cole bombing and our embassy bombings, didn't it?) The fact is that if a country doesn't want to (say) give up a terrorist, there's not many options we can take to make them.

Then he talks about us becoming a kinder, gentler state. For instance,

Stop the cruel sanctions on Iraq, which are killing more than a thousand children every week without doing anything to weaken Saddam Hussein's tyrannical hold over the country.

Other than the falsehood of the "thousand children a week" figure, maybe he has a point about it being ineffective. (On the other hand, open, free trade would give Saddam free reign to buy materials useful for all kinds of mayhem.)

Bah, the article may have a couple of interesting points - all obscured by the tripe.