There's the initial explosion, followed by fallout climbing into the atmosphere and, of course, the residual contamination of the target site. And, of course, the inevitable retaliation.

Of course, the four horsemen of the apocalypse -- Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice -- don't seem to care. Or, worse, they don't relate the death of a civilian population on a foreign shore as human.

There's growing evidence to what the Muslim world has feared all along, that this war on terror is nothing more than a thinly disguised recreation of The Crusades. The pope said as much recently during a speech in Germany, why would we expect other proponents from the Christian right to think otherwise? And, of course, that would include such solid humanitarians as our administration and the sheep that mindlessly follow them.

I always thought the true Christian path led to peace.