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To: E who wrote (2054)	9/11/2001 11:57:57 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 51710

Thank you. We need to seriously review our Mid-East policy while taking positive action against those involved (but ONLY those individuals). The "anyone that harbors terrorists" is just a little too vague for my tastes. I think that hitting Afghanistan could cause Pakistan to get trigger happy with a symbolic attack of their own. This could easily cascade out of control. I was just out with my telescope looking at the one aircraft flying tonight. I heard it come over at maybe 30k feet, flying a big circle around the Bay Area. My guess would be AWACS, or other similar hardware. Similarly, earlier I was out hiking with my friend at a local hill to consider the implications of today's events. All of a sudden it dawned on me that this is the first time in my life I've ever seen skies with no airplanes. The absolute first. None. Anywhere. We were out on the ridge for almost two hours and not a plane was visible anywhere for over 30 miles around. I looked through the late-afternoon airspace with my binoculars and not one aircraft, helicopter, jet or anything else was visible. I've hiked miles into the Sierra Nevada's, always within hearing distance of a plane. Not today, not tonight. Except AWACS.