"Even if it upsets me, we want peace."

If only more people in this world had this attitude.

Algerians overwhelmingly approved a peace plan that provides a broad amnesty for Islamic extremists but which critics denounced as a whitewash of crimes committed during a bloody internal war, official referendum results showed Friday.

When Algerians were ripping each other apart, that wasn't front page news. Nevermind that there were massacres where whole villages were slaughtered. What did make the front pages was when some sunbathing Western tourists got their heads chopped off. Maybe it's time to look at Algerians, see what they have done, see if this democratically elected peace can hold. A nation voted for peace. A nation voted for forgiveness. A nation VOTED to move on with its life. The insurgents have to live with their crimes just as the country must live with them. You don't see an army running in to "liberate" the Algerians from the Islamic Salvation Front.

We in America are stuck with warmongers, mouths foaming with desire for revenge. Revenge on what? Because someone broke New York for awhile? Far, far more people have died in the Iraq war than did in the Towers. Can we choose peace? The Shiites and Kurds could take a page from the Algerians, too. The Sunnis did atrocious things to them under Saddamn, we know. Forget the past, look to the future. It's all that matters now.