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Roger L. Simon disagrees, as I do, with Kerry’s stand on treating terrorism as a matter for police action only.
Also popping into my head were the recent words of Democratic presidential frontrunner John Kerry who told us the other day that the threat of terrorism had been exaggerated and that what was really necessary was “police action.” Well, he’s right in one regard—some police or intelligence agency (or maybe more than one) picked up some information about these flights. Whether that information was correct or not we don’t know and maybe never will. But we do know it was persuasive enough to convince officials at British Airways and Air France to cancel the flights.
I would like to ask Senator Kerry this: Does he think we should live like this the rest of our lives? Police action is all well and good, but, to the best of my knowledge, it has yet to put an ultimate end to murder, rape, etc. I don’t know about other people but I’d like to believe that some day this is going to stop. If it takes more than calling 9-11 to prevent another 9-11, so be it. I’m afraid if we listen to Senator Kerry’s prescription, it won’t be Ida Cox we’ll be singing. It’ll be the yet more familiar lyrics of the great BB King:
”...you’ve done me wrong, baby, and you’ll be sorry someday.”
I’d like to add that the terrorists would love us to treat this as a police action, because that makes it a tit-for-tat arrangement. They attack us, we arrest a few of them, then they attack us again, and it goes on forever, like it has done for years in Israel. The Bush doctrine is not at all what the terrorists have in mind. The Bush doctrine is, you attack us, we take over the country we believe most supports you—liberate it from its dictators—and return it to its people. This doesn’t work at all for the terrorists. This is not tit-for-tat. This is tit-for-we terraform your planet so things can grow there again. Much better.
