August 12, 2004

» Al-Qaeda thinks it'd be unfair to kill more than four million non-combatants or render more than ten million homeless. So that's alright, then.

In killing Americans who are ordinarily off limits, Muslims should not exceed four million non-combatants, or render more than ten million of them homeless. We should avoid this, to make sure the penalty [that we are inflicting] is no more than reciprocal. God knows what is best.