anger..frustration...desperate need to beat sh1t out of someone. I am still reeling from the this.

Chasing extremists through the swamps and jungles of 14,000 indonesian islands is both reactionary and pointless however. Maybe this further tradgedy will finally steel international reslove to go after state sponsosrs of terrorism, cutting off the terrorists sources of funding, intelligence and arms.

We in the Uk are now gearing up (in terms of vaccinated medical staff, and vaccine) for a terrorist launched biological attack of small-pox. (The announcement went along the lines of, "No-one panic, but we want to buy enough small-pox vaccine to innoculate every man woman and child in the country"). It would almost seem that this is a reaction to a specific, but as yet unrevealed, threat to the population. The UK CME descibed an outbreak as, "just a matter of time".

No-ones shores are safe, every westerner is a target, civilian or not. Because of the nature of the conflict we are unlikley to be able to engage the enemy in a stand up knock down fight. For dealing with the individual terrorist the approach of the Mossad (small groups of highly trained special forces operating in terrorist style cells, to find and inhume the terrorists) is the only logical approach. But in taking this war to the enemy on an appreciable scale we have to take a pro-active approach aginst the sponsors of world terrorism. We know who they are, the UN knows who they are. It's time we did something about it. Certainly this attrocity in Bali proves that inaction in this regard does not reduce the risk of a further attrocity.