I suppose that I should comment on this anniversary of the attack that launched us into war against terror. I'm not eloquent enough to match James Lileks, but I did read something in a column by Claudia Rosett. It's a quote from William Faulkner:

I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last dingdong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

I would add that there is more good in the world than there are people like bin Laden, Saddam and Arafat. Most of us don't want wars. We just want to live our lives in peace. But the ones who make history seem to be the ones driven by pride, greed and hate, and those who defeat them.