Gary Farber,

Oh, spare us your pieties. Of course his death was a tragedy. How many other deaths that day were there because of this turmoil — tens, hundreds, thousands? Should we wear perpetual sack cloth and forever speak in whispers out of respect for the ever multiplying dead?

I may vehemently disagree with somebody with a much different view than mine, but I will grant that they, like me, are struggling with how to best minimize the number of future deaths in this conflict. As such, that debate, and not the respectful humming of funeral dirges, is of utmost importance.