I would like to answer the questions raised by Craig Munster in his letter to the editor. He asks, "if we kill women and children in our attacks how are we any better than the terrorists?" Put simply, the difference is this, we are spending hundreds of millions of dollars and employing tactics that put our nation's sons and daughters at increased risk in order to avoid harming the civilian populations in which our enemies are finding refuge.

No other power in the history of the world would make such an effort. The terrorists and their supporters spent their money and sent their sons (of course their daughters are beneath their consideration as equal humans) to deliberately kill the largest number of civilians possible. It is asinine to claim that cold bloodedly cutting a stewardesses throat and deliberately crashing a plane full of terrified people into a civilian building is at the same moral level as accidentally hitting civilians who are in a war zone, despite Herculean efforts to avoid such accidents.