I guess my main question to the "anti-war" crowd is one that I also posed (in a different way) in the thread talking about radical muslims calling for Obama's assassination and its legality. The war in Afghanistan was begun in retaliation for 9/11 and the Taliban's subsequent refusal to surrender Osama bin Laden and his accomplices to the US. The UN gave tacit approval to this action. What else was the US gov't supposed to do, given the loss of life endured by foreign nationals and planned in foreign locations? The UN, the World Court in the Hague, pretty much every international organization you care to name was powerless to act, leaving the United States (and its allies) no recourse BUT to take military action. Seriously, what else could have been done? Nothing, which in turn sends a message that if you have an axe to grind, you can attack at will, with no fear of reprisals to your homes/supporters/etc? No government can allow the murder of 3000 of its citizens to go unanswered, especially those who were for the most part innocent and uninvolved with the issues the attackers were responding to.