God bless you for linking to this, Justin! It's time that all Americans -- particularly Catholics who are infatuated with discussions of "just war" theory (et tu, Mark Shea?) -- truly understand the evil that we're fighting -- an evil that so many Catholics want to appease in the name of "compassion".

I was taken by one sign that read, "President Bush, declare war on Afghanistan tonight!" I was also taken by the demand to anihilate those responsible for this travesty.

Those sentiments reflect clear-headed people, not intellectuals or pundits who are expert at second-guessing whenever somebody passes flatulence.

We need that clear-headedness now. We will need it for years to come. This war against Islam -- not against terrorism, Islam -- will be a focal point of American foreign policy for the forseeable future.

It sounds like you are making a generalization Joseph. Not all of us Catholics (as you put it) want to appease the fascists hiding behind Islamism. As a matter of fact, most of the Catholics I know do not want to appease them either. I don't even have a problem with the Vatican giving the U.S. a reminder about only fighting a 'just' war. The ultimate arbiter is not the Vatican though. Any which way I look at this war, I find it a 'just' war. Not only from a stand point of being our brothers' protector, but from the stand point that the Gulf War was never finished to begin with.