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This site was honored recently by email correspondence from Bruce Herschensohn. I’d heard him speak, and had blogged an insightful comment he’d made about the U.N.
He’d made another comment I was very interested in posting here. The precise words in which he’d put it seemed perfect, and I contacted him to get an accurate quote.
Bruce made the point that we need more pre-emptive strikes. Nations including Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen continue to harbor terrorists who want to attack our civilian population on our shores.
Our President should tell their Chiefs of State that we know they shelter headquarters, training centers, offices, safe houses, and other facilities of terrorists, and either the Chief of State orders them out and gets rid of them or we will get rid of them.
My thoughts: That is exactly right.
So many here continue to wring their hands over what to do about terrorists, as though it would be an act of war against the nations that harbor them to eradicate them and the many known physical structures that house their workplaces. It is no act of war against such nations. We would be making no attack against those nations, but only on the terrorists who hide from us within their borders.
Those nations would find it very inconvenient to take it as an act of war. To do so they would have to admit they side with the terrorists and are collaborators in planned attacks against our civilians.
The terrorists are gnats. They are empowered precisely by our forbearance. Any previous nation in history with our power would have eradicated them together with their host nations from the face of the earth by this time. They depend and rely on our forbearance to exist and to continue their efforts to kill us.
There is no reason for such forbearance to continue. Bruce’s strategy is precisely what’s called for. It would greatly reduce the ability of the terrorists to harm our civilians and those of other nations.
Update 7-22-04. Welcome, Carnival of the Vanities readers! This article was honored to be included in the latest Carnival of the Vanities, hosted this week by SoundFury.
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If the United States starts attacking free countries around the globe because WE suspect them of 'harboring terrorists', we will be involved in many more Iraq- type situations. The global community will resent us for our arrogance and our blatant disregard for human life. Terrorism is obviously a threat, but if we just go around attacking countries, then we will become the terrorists.