Joroho,

I was wondering about how to treat this topic as well. Thank you for giving it a voice.

Yes a moment to pause and pray is very appropriate. It is a sorrowful thing to witness the perversion of freewill. We know freewill can be used to do so many fantastic things. The flip side is that freewill can also be used to do horrific things.

Peter Jennings is calling this a gross failure of Intelligence (as in the intelligence community failed). I would say, that this is just a failure of someone's use of freewill. THis could not have been prevented without some horrific intrusions into privacy.
And privacy and safety should not be pitted against each other lest we start encouraging police state mentality.

I am also impressed with your very simple statement, "May God help us all".

Yes. I'm sure God will.

Once again, thank you for giving this a voice.

Athena