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Just my opinion...
From yesterday's post on the release of 9-11 transcripts: "As a family member, you canât imagine the horror of finding your loved oneâs last words," said Carie Lemack, whose mother, Judy Larocque, was on American Airlines Flight 11 and was killed when it hit the North Tower. "What is the reason for releasing these tapes? If itâs safety, thatâs fantastic. But if itâs entertainment, then weâre very concerned."I don't think the release of the transcripts or tapes will have that much relevance for safety purposes. I think we've pretty much absorbed the lessons and applied them, at least as well as we can. Nor is there any entertainment value to be found, unless you're a devotee of the Marquis de Sade or Osama bin Laden. It takes a special kind of sickness of mind to be entertained by the deaths of 2600 people who could do nothing to save themselves. The purpose the release serves me is as a reminder. No, I'll never forgive. I'll never forget. I'll never "understand." Almost 3000 of our people were slaughtered in a single day. They weren't soldiers. They weren't targeted for something they'd done. They were targeted for what they were. Any one of them could have been any one of us. As much as I approve of George Bush's actions since that attack, the one thing I fault him on is that we don't hear those tapes, read those transcripts, see those videos on a regular basis. We as a nation need reminded, over and over again, lest we forget. We've already gone back to Britney's breasts and who killed Lori Peterson. Jon Benet's still dead. Our attention span is too damned short, and that's something the enemy counts on. Let's not forget. Our enemy declared war on us. They didn't say, "We have disagreements with you. We should sit down and discuss them and see what kind of accomodation we can work out." Instead they killed 3000 of us. They killed 200 mostly Australians. They kill Hindus by the dozen. They absolutely revel in killing Jews by the dozen. They kill each other by the dozen. The death toll from yesterday's blast in Najaf is up to 75, and expected to climb still further. To them, it's a war of extermination, with success measured in the number of lives snuffed out. We'd better make it a war of extermination ourselves. If we've learned a lesson from Afghanistan and Iraq, it's that if a country harbors terrorists it's not worth our dollars and our men and women to try and rebuild it. They're part and parcel of the society. If we pulled out of Afghanistan tomorrow, I wouldn't turn a hair; they want to have their Islamic state, let them have it. If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, I'd weep no tears â as long as the understanding was that as soon as the subsequent government harbored a single terrorist group we'd go back in and decapitate it. Lebanon? They're determined to harbor Hezbollah and they refuse to control Ein el-Hilweh. Hezbollah's part of their national structure. That makes them a terrorist state. Decapitate the national structure. Let them worry about putting the place back together when we leave. Syria? It's Terror East. They harbor Hamas, Islamic Jihad, PFLP-GC, and all those nice jihadis swarming into Iraq to try and kill our men and women there. Destroy Assad and his Baathist cronies. Let the Syrians worry about what'll replace them â but make sure they understand that if they harbor a single terror group, we'll be back and give another bunch another chance. Iran? That's where the money and the ideology comes from for Hezbollah and the Paleogroups. Kill the ayatollahs. Level Qom, if need be. String up every Basij and Revolutionary Guard we can lay hands on. Then leave, immediately. Let them build their own successor regime. And decapitate it if they go back into the terror business. Eventually they'll catch on. Paleostine? Kill Yasser. Decapitate Hamas, starting with Sheikh Yassin. Throw out all of the "Palestinian Authority" structure, including Abbas and Dahlan and Rajoub and Barghouti. Let the people who remain worry about putting together a government for their truncated "state," assuming they want to. But the first time somebody blows up, do it again, sweep the entire place clean. Kill all the politicians and all the holy men. Pakistan? As far as I'm concerned, it's West India if they don't start stringing up their jihadis and the "holy men" behind them. I don't care that it's a cesspool of ignorance and self-imposed poverty. I care that the place is swarming with terrorists, that it exports terrorism. And Soddy Arabia? It would make a nice collection of emirates. Or a parking lot. It's been almost two years. We've made a lot of progress. The Taliban are gone. Saddam's gone. We're killing terrorists every day. But our people are starting to forget. I'm ashamed that's happening. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-08-30 |
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