I need someone to help clarify things for me. I'm obviously confused.

Today in a White House press question and answer session, Afghan President Hamid Karzai responded to the question:

"Mr. President; There are many who think the Iraq war has become a recruiting tool and is fostering more terrorism throughout the world. Can you attest to the accuracy of that?"

To which President Karzai responded:

"Terrorism was hurting us way before Iraq or September 11 ... These extremist forces were killing people in Afghanistan for years, closing schools, burning mosques, killing children, uprooting vineyards," Karzai said. "They came to America on September 11, but they were attacking you before September 11 in other parts of the world. We are a witness in Afghanistan.

"Do you forget people jumping off the 80th floor or 70th floor when the planes hit them? Can you imagine what it will be for a man or woman to jump from that high?" Karzai asked recalling some of the more shocking scenes from the World Trade Center bombing. "How do we get rid of them? ... Should we wait for them to come and kill us again?"

Why does it take the President of a back-water, third-world, hell-hole of a country to tell the American press corps - and the American people for that matter - that it's high time to stop the internal cat-fighting and get down to the business of planting these terrorists six feet under?

A question: Do you think there were people who died on September 11th who did not like the President and his policies? A betting person would say "yes".

Do you think there were anti-war, anti-destruction, people killed on 9/11? Again, most likely the answer is "yes".

This is a fact of life (or death in this case). The perpetrators of 9/11 didn't differentiate between conservatives, liberals, jews, muslims, gay, straight, black, white, hispanic, asian, tall or short, meek, aggressive, male, female, adult or child. All killed were American's, and that was ok with them.

Yet, according to nearly half this country, we're supposed to differentiate between Iraqis, Syrians, Hammas, Hizb Allah, the PLO, the PLFP, Al Quaeda, the Taliban, Iranians, and any number of extremist groups that have America - and OUR children - finely sighted in their rifle scopes.

For the life of me, I just can't see the logic in that. We're under attack from all sides; we're under the threat of attack from all sides; but half the country wants to split hairs on who is a legitimate target and who is not.

Are the ones out to get us splitting hairs on which element of American children they want to kill?