RogerA: a national security hawk is the only lifestyle for me. Yum yum.

Regarding keeping my ìindecent conservative (?) opinionsî to myself: if it was not for community such as I met on this blog, I would go insane long time ago. If fact, being in touch with all you fine ladies and gentlemen gave me hope that reason and decency are not dead, that reasonable people can discuss all sorts of issues without hurting one another, that my husband and I are not the only people sharing the unfashionable, politically incorrect classical liberal values.

I believe that at one time M. Simon suggested that after the terrorist threat is past the more traditionally conservative and more traditionally liberal people on this blog would go their separate ways. I donít think so. Once we build respect for one another we will be able to discuss ñ in a civilized, no matter how heated, manner ñ such explosive issues as abortion, gay marriage, healthcare reform or affirmative action. And this things need to be discussed. Only by being open to wide variety of alternative views we can find solutions that work and that are acceptable to most people. I realize that we will not be able to solve everything; some solutions may be simply unacceptable to certain points of view. But we all realize that reasonable people can disagree. And I believe that most decent people ñ yes, we are all decent people, Dan Rather – want only life, liberty and happiness, for all of us.

PS. It is a good thing that Al Gore invented that Internet!