To the Editor:
In an ideal world we should respond to violence with patience, sympathy and peace -- the expectation being that the perpetrators of the hostility will react in kind by changing their violent ways. Unfortunately, this rosy option does not present itself in this case. Since Osama bin Laden issued a Fatwah ordering his followers to kill all Americans, we have not been given any reason to believe that he will either be satisfied with the deaths of 6,000 Americans or that appeasement will convince him to change his ways. It is an unfortunate fact that we must now respond to aggression with more violence.
