During the US presidential primaries around a year ago, I heard a low-profile canditate on air. He was a physicist and part of his platform was against the development of the missile shield which, he argued, was technically unfeasible (unfortunately, I didh't get his name). The interviewer asked him how he proposed to defend the homeland, he answered 'by means of a foriegn policy that didn't cause so many people to hate us.' Perhaps we should consider this in tandem with our considering allowing security concerns leading us to suspend or curtail the Bill of Rights, as well.
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Question: how useful is the word "innocent" and to what purpose? My own feeling is that its use this week has essentially been bellicose and unhelpful--and otherwise meaningless (unless conjoined with "children").
