We are at war
This morning we were once again rudely reminded that we are fighting a war on terror. It should once again be as crystal clear as it was on the morning of September 11th that we are fighting a war against evil itself. No one should doubt for a moment that our lives our freedom and out children’s future are at stake in this war. And most importantly we must have universal acknowledgment that to back down and let the forces of evil claim victory would be catastrophic and unconscionable.
There has been some discussion of whether or not to change the name of the war on terror to something less inflammatory. The terrorists weighed in very heavily this morning, they think that we are at war and if we fail to acknowledge that we are fools. The terrorists enjoyed attacking fools for decades. They laughed as we failed to acknowledge the acts of war they committed by attacking us all over the world. The terrorists initiated battles in Israel, Bali, Tanzania, Germany, Libya, Lebanon, Yemen and numerous other battlefields. It took the horrors of 9/11 and over 3,000 murdered Americans for us to finally wake up and say “oh my God, we’re at war.”
In the last 4 years the terrorists have struck our allies all over the world. It has been a return to their tactics of the last 3 decades. The same monsters who attacked us have chosen their battlefields well. They prefer to attack countries that do not understand the nature of this war. They prefer to wage war on battlefields in Holland, England and Spain because they know that their attacks will not be met by B2’s blowing the holy hell out of their homelands or by troops knowing on their leaders doors. We must never allow this to happen in America. Out safety depends on making sure that the terrorists know that we understand this is a war.
If we were to respond to the barbaric attacks that took place in Jordan as a “legal matter” and attempt to arrest the people responsible we would be making a huge mistake Terrorists are willing to die for their cause, we will not be able to deter future attacks by arresting a few of the people who fired rockets at our ship. We won’t even be able to deter attacks if we strap the monsters into “Old Smokey” down in Florida and put their electrocution on broadcast television. Anything but an exponential response that is devastating to terrorist infrastructure will only encourage more attempts to murder innocent people. We have Seal teams and Delta forces that we could send into Jordan to utterly uproot and destroy any terrorists in the county. We have some of the bravest, most well trained (and well armed) men and women in the world who have one goal in life, to kill the monsters that threaten American lives. We need them right now more than ever. We need to use them to make sure that every terrorist on earth knows that whenever they attack Americans there will be hell to pay.
I am sitting on an airplane listening to the media coverage of the attacks and I hear that the Jordanians are questioning Egyptian and Iraqi suspects. That is fat out unacceptable. A terrorist attack like this one is not carried out by a few lone individuals. Terrorists used military grade ordinance in a coordinated attack an American warship. That kind of terrorist attack takes dozens if not hundreds of people to coordinate. It takes money and training, we have learned from Al-Queada training manuals captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan that these attacks are complicated affairs involving a lot of people. We need to root out and go after all of these people and we need to do it now while the trail is still hot. If we allow some the Jordanians to hand us a handful of terrorists, we will be coming a huge mockery of justice. We will be sending a message to dozens if not hundreds of terrorists that you can attack America and get away with it. What we need to do is end every terrorist on earth a message “if you are involved in an attack on Americans in anyway whatsoever you will die an honor-less and pointless death”. Short simple and sweet. Some people have speculated that Syria might be invovled in this attack. If that is the case then they must also be taught the very same leson.
Critics (peacemongers and other vultures) are sure to come out of the woodwork and claim that these attacks are proof that we are losing the war on terror and that what we are doing in Iraq didn’t make us safer at all. Those people couldn’t be more wrong. What they fail to understand is that we are at war with these people. We are at war with an enemy that is devoted to our destruction and it is totally unreasonable to assume that they will not continue to attack us until they are broken and defeated. If they didn’t pose a very really threat to us than we would have a reason to attack them now would we? When we are winning the war on terror the left screams that we are attacking innocent people and that we are not fighting a war but pummeling innocent people. When we get attacked, when murderous thugs try to kill Americans they change their tune and claim we are fighting a war that we cannot possibly win. It boggles the mind how the very same people can make both of those arguments.Conservative or Liberal, Republican or Democrat everyone has to agree that we cannot allow anyone to try and murder Americans. Whether you support higher taxes or lower taxes, prayer or sex ed, whether or not you think there are emanations from penumbras that give us secret rights you must not sit back as Americans are attacked. Right now, today Friday August 19th 2005, America has a chance to make the world safer for generations to come. In order to do that we must ignore the shrill voices of people like Cindy Sheehan and her followers. We have to recognize that anyone whose political views directly threaten the safety and security of American citizens ir more than just a nutty sideshow freak. They put all of our lives in danger.
There has been some discussion of whether or not to change the name of the war on terror to something less inflammatory. The terrorists weighed in very heavily this morning, they think that we are at war and if we fail to acknowledge that we are fools. The terrorists enjoyed attacking fools for decades. They laughed as we failed to acknowledge the acts of war they committed by attacking us all over the world. The terrorists initiated battles in Israel, Bali, Tanzania, Germany, Libya, Lebanon, Yemen and numerous other battlefields. It took the horrors of 9/11 and over 3,000 murdered Americans for us to finally wake up and say “oh my God, we’re at war.”
In the last 4 years the terrorists have struck our allies all over the world. It has been a return to their tactics of the last 3 decades. The same monsters who attacked us have chosen their battlefields well. They prefer to attack countries that do not understand the nature of this war. They prefer to wage war on battlefields in Holland, England and Spain because they know that their attacks will not be met by B2’s blowing the holy hell out of their homelands or by troops knowing on their leaders doors. We must never allow this to happen in America. Out safety depends on making sure that the terrorists know that we understand this is a war.
If we were to respond to the barbaric attacks that took place in Jordan as a “legal matter” and attempt to arrest the people responsible we would be making a huge mistake Terrorists are willing to die for their cause, we will not be able to deter future attacks by arresting a few of the people who fired rockets at our ship. We won’t even be able to deter attacks if we strap the monsters into “Old Smokey” down in Florida and put their electrocution on broadcast television. Anything but an exponential response that is devastating to terrorist infrastructure will only encourage more attempts to murder innocent people. We have Seal teams and Delta forces that we could send into Jordan to utterly uproot and destroy any terrorists in the county. We have some of the bravest, most well trained (and well armed) men and women in the world who have one goal in life, to kill the monsters that threaten American lives. We need them right now more than ever. We need to use them to make sure that every terrorist on earth knows that whenever they attack Americans there will be hell to pay.
I am sitting on an airplane listening to the media coverage of the attacks and I hear that the Jordanians are questioning Egyptian and Iraqi suspects. That is fat out unacceptable. A terrorist attack like this one is not carried out by a few lone individuals. Terrorists used military grade ordinance in a coordinated attack an American warship. That kind of terrorist attack takes dozens if not hundreds of people to coordinate. It takes money and training, we have learned from Al-Queada training manuals captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan that these attacks are complicated affairs involving a lot of people. We need to root out and go after all of these people and we need to do it now while the trail is still hot. If we allow some the Jordanians to hand us a handful of terrorists, we will be coming a huge mockery of justice. We will be sending a message to dozens if not hundreds of terrorists that you can attack America and get away with it. What we need to do is end every terrorist on earth a message “if you are involved in an attack on Americans in anyway whatsoever you will die an honor-less and pointless death”. Short simple and sweet. Some people have speculated that Syria might be invovled in this attack. If that is the case then they must also be taught the very same leson.
Critics (peacemongers and other vultures) are sure to come out of the woodwork and claim that these attacks are proof that we are losing the war on terror and that what we are doing in Iraq didn’t make us safer at all. Those people couldn’t be more wrong. What they fail to understand is that we are at war with these people. We are at war with an enemy that is devoted to our destruction and it is totally unreasonable to assume that they will not continue to attack us until they are broken and defeated. If they didn’t pose a very really threat to us than we would have a reason to attack them now would we? When we are winning the war on terror the left screams that we are attacking innocent people and that we are not fighting a war but pummeling innocent people. When we get attacked, when murderous thugs try to kill Americans they change their tune and claim we are fighting a war that we cannot possibly win. It boggles the mind how the very same people can make both of those arguments.Conservative or Liberal, Republican or Democrat everyone has to agree that we cannot allow anyone to try and murder Americans. Whether you support higher taxes or lower taxes, prayer or sex ed, whether or not you think there are emanations from penumbras that give us secret rights you must not sit back as Americans are attacked. Right now, today Friday August 19th 2005, America has a chance to make the world safer for generations to come. In order to do that we must ignore the shrill voices of people like Cindy Sheehan and her followers. We have to recognize that anyone whose political views directly threaten the safety and security of American citizens ir more than just a nutty sideshow freak. They put all of our lives in danger.
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