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As it was, in our shock, probing in from the parameter toward the epicenter of the Banda Aceh Earthquake, only a few have considered whether the hand of the Almighty reached out and sliced off a decade from what still promises to be a protracted conflict with Islamo-Fascism.

That's something I hadn't thought of. One of my older sons asked just a little while ago if Al Queda might try to attack our ships offshore. I hadn't thought of that, either. I figured they couldn't get to them because of the nature of the destruction; they wouldn't be able to get to the seashore from the interior. But if the photographers can get there, so can the terrorists.

There is certain reasons to be concerned, since 53,000 national troops were recently in Aceh to hold at bay 5,300 Aceh insurgents.

But, the nature of the destruction is nearly complete, with the "civil emergency" in Aceh put in place by the central government a moot point.

Aceh is drowned, the man said... it is finished.

Everyone says how terrible the Tsunami was, but it is only now becoming clear how nearly complete the destruction of Aceh was. There really hasn't been anything in recent times to compare with the size of the destruction there... Even Krakatoa didn't compare... even the wasteland of industrial Germany in the summer of 1945... An area the size of California is simply gone...