Touchy, Touchy

If I get another outraged email from an atheist claiming defamation because I wrote that atheists believe in "nothing at all," I’ll, well, … I’ll just read another email. Only 643 piled up since yesterday. But, no, I didn’t mean to imply that atheists believe in nothing. My atheist ex-boyfriend, for example, very much believed in beer and cognitive neuroscience. Then there are all the touchy anti-war types who are hyperventilating over my highlighting a document allegedly linking Saddam with al Qaeda. "We already knew there might be links!" "It doesn’t prove a working relationship." Sure. It doesn’t. But for me, one central pre-war worry was the possibility that a proven WMD-maker had links with Osama. Hence, my understanding of the security threat against the West changed. That was one part of my calculation in supporting the war. It’s one part of my calculation in still supporting it, and hoping for its success.