Today is 9/11. I can't help but feel a little pensive and somber on this day, which by the way, should have been made a national holiday by now.

So I've been thinking what would happen, God forbid, if something like that should happen again? How would each of our Presidential candidates react? Would they be reactionary or would they be diplomatic? Would they think outside of the box or would they do the same thing that every other President has done?

I started thinking about the war in Iraq and the "war" in Afghanistan. And then I began asking myself some questions...Remember 2001? Wasn't Osama bin Laden supposed to be in Afghanistan? Why are we still in Iraq? Where are those weapons of mass destruction??

And why is the Taliban increasing in power lately? That is just plain scary. Why is it that the C.I.A. and the military, with all its billions of dollars in funding and technological resources and satellites, can't find one, single man? How is that possible?

And I thought about all those senators voting for the war in Iraq. I thought about Hillary Clinton voting for the war in Iraq. Why hasn't she apologized for voting for an unjust war? Does she have so much pride? It smacks of political pandering.

On the other hand, I want to say "thank you" to Senator Obama for taking a stand and saying "no" to an unjust war, and trying to get the country to focus on the real issues and the real menace that threatens our lives. As he wrote today, "The war in Iraq continues to fuel terror and extremism. A Taliban insurgency rages on in Afghanistan. In too many disconnected corners of the world, hate is casting a shadow over hope.

Our calling today remains the same as it was on 9/11. We must write a new chapter in American history. We must bring justice to the terrorists who killed on our shores. We must devise new strategies, develop new capabilities, and build new alliances to defeat the threats of the 21st century. We must extend hope to the hopeless corners of the world and reaffirm our core values to counter the hateful message of the extremists. And we must secure a more resilient homeland.

To write that new American story, we must recapture that sense of common purpose that we had on September 11, 2001."

I agree Mr. Obama and thank you once again.