The War On Terror
Where we stand today.
Here are some facts (and separate opinions) for
you to consider:
• There have been no, count 'em, ZERO terrorist attacks on American soil since that fateful September day three years ago.
• Several hundred al Qaeda henchmen have been either killed or captured and senior members have provided information about the group's plans and structure. Furthermore, when the government now finds it prudent to warn the public of some new threat information that it has obtained, al Qaeda's plans are forced to change at the very least, and are guarded against.
On a personal note, when one considers the current political climate, one sees that these warnings are continually met with skeptical and politically-motivated eyes; these eyes seeing if they can capitalize by labeling the warnings that don't actually yield a terrorist attack as "scare-tactics." It's almost as if they would wish that the government wouldn't say anything until the truck, full of gasoline, is actually pulling underneath the Atlanta Financial Center, getting ready to explode its load. But, wait! Wouldn't then our government have been negligent in not warning us? I'm confused. It seems as though the opponents of the Bush Administration want to have it both ways? Have you ever heard of such a thing? I surely haven't, especially not out of the Democratic party and its presidential nominee.
• al Qaeda is no longer leisurely sitting in bases protected by governments and they are not welcome to too many places these days.
• Saddam Hussein and Mullah Omar are no longer imposing their will on millions of people; if Saddam did indeed ever have WMDs (he did; he told us) he no longer has the capacity to sell them or loan them to others who might wish us ill.
• Iraq is now crawling with US personnel, searching for weapons (of mass destruction and otherwise), killing terrorists and drawing their fire so that they are shooting at Americans THERE, not in the streets of Atlanta, New York or Washington.
• Countries have noted the US's determination and will to live up to its word; when President Bush said that we were no longer going to appease Saddam Hussein we meant it. Check the UN's record on saying something and then doing nothing. This has caused nations such as Libya with its infamous leader, Colonel Qaddafi, to fully and completely abandon his WMD program; this also helps to nudge Libya back into the international community with Qaddafi remaining its leader.
• The pious and holy UN has been revealed to be an organization of corruption at all levels, including, most notably in this line of thought, in the Iraqi Oil for Food program. (How often do you hear talk of this investigation mentioned?)
• The US is pulling its military off of the Arabian peninsula (this was one of Usama's original wishes before he decided to kill all of the non-Muslim infidels) and basing it in the coming years in a free Iraq. The US is also restructuring its forces on the Korean peninsula, allowing more South Koreans to bear the duty of guarding their border from the North.
• Free elections are going to take place in both Iraq and Afghanistan later this year and the next. Whatever the consequence, they will be the first of their kind in both regions.
• The government of France is upset with us for attacking Iraq. We've made up with that of Germany and Russia, but public opinion worldwide is admittedly extremely anti-American right now.
There are many possible and real reasons for this but one reason is that people in places like Europe, for example, wish to remain ignorant of some facts and truths in order to reinforce a set belief that they have been fed and have bought into for their entire lives. If France discourages the use of any Western military force in the situation in the Sudan and then sends in preparatory troops into neighboring Chad (with its "welcomed...military might", then that is OK; if America were to do the same thing it would be "American imperialism" at its finest and yet again. This situation, scantily mentioned in the American media, sadly, also is the next shining example of Kofi Annan's and the UN's leadership on combatting the world's ills. We had the genocides in Rwanda and Kosovo that the US acted on without the support of the UN and, of course the actions in Iraq were met with the same warm welcome by the "world body." Words don't always do the trick, alone.
The world today is indeed a scary place, but that does not mean that we can just turn our backs, cover our head and pray that the sky won't fall down on us. The sky is falling and we must deal with it now.
• There have been no, count 'em, ZERO terrorist attacks on American soil since that fateful September day three years ago.
• Several hundred al Qaeda henchmen have been either killed or captured and senior members have provided information about the group's plans and structure. Furthermore, when the government now finds it prudent to warn the public of some new threat information that it has obtained, al Qaeda's plans are forced to change at the very least, and are guarded against.
On a personal note, when one considers the current political climate, one sees that these warnings are continually met with skeptical and politically-motivated eyes; these eyes seeing if they can capitalize by labeling the warnings that don't actually yield a terrorist attack as "scare-tactics." It's almost as if they would wish that the government wouldn't say anything until the truck, full of gasoline, is actually pulling underneath the Atlanta Financial Center, getting ready to explode its load. But, wait! Wouldn't then our government have been negligent in not warning us? I'm confused. It seems as though the opponents of the Bush Administration want to have it both ways? Have you ever heard of such a thing? I surely haven't, especially not out of the Democratic party and its presidential nominee.
• al Qaeda is no longer leisurely sitting in bases protected by governments and they are not welcome to too many places these days.
• Saddam Hussein and Mullah Omar are no longer imposing their will on millions of people; if Saddam did indeed ever have WMDs (he did; he told us) he no longer has the capacity to sell them or loan them to others who might wish us ill.
• Iraq is now crawling with US personnel, searching for weapons (of mass destruction and otherwise), killing terrorists and drawing their fire so that they are shooting at Americans THERE, not in the streets of Atlanta, New York or Washington.
• Countries have noted the US's determination and will to live up to its word; when President Bush said that we were no longer going to appease Saddam Hussein we meant it. Check the UN's record on saying something and then doing nothing. This has caused nations such as Libya with its infamous leader, Colonel Qaddafi, to fully and completely abandon his WMD program; this also helps to nudge Libya back into the international community with Qaddafi remaining its leader.
• The pious and holy UN has been revealed to be an organization of corruption at all levels, including, most notably in this line of thought, in the Iraqi Oil for Food program. (How often do you hear talk of this investigation mentioned?)
• The US is pulling its military off of the Arabian peninsula (this was one of Usama's original wishes before he decided to kill all of the non-Muslim infidels) and basing it in the coming years in a free Iraq. The US is also restructuring its forces on the Korean peninsula, allowing more South Koreans to bear the duty of guarding their border from the North.
• Free elections are going to take place in both Iraq and Afghanistan later this year and the next. Whatever the consequence, they will be the first of their kind in both regions.
• The government of France is upset with us for attacking Iraq. We've made up with that of Germany and Russia, but public opinion worldwide is admittedly extremely anti-American right now.
There are many possible and real reasons for this but one reason is that people in places like Europe, for example, wish to remain ignorant of some facts and truths in order to reinforce a set belief that they have been fed and have bought into for their entire lives. If France discourages the use of any Western military force in the situation in the Sudan and then sends in preparatory troops into neighboring Chad (with its "welcomed...military might", then that is OK; if America were to do the same thing it would be "American imperialism" at its finest and yet again. This situation, scantily mentioned in the American media, sadly, also is the next shining example of Kofi Annan's and the UN's leadership on combatting the world's ills. We had the genocides in Rwanda and Kosovo that the US acted on without the support of the UN and, of course the actions in Iraq were met with the same warm welcome by the "world body." Words don't always do the trick, alone.
The world today is indeed a scary place, but that does not mean that we can just turn our backs, cover our head and pray that the sky won't fall down on us. The sky is falling and we must deal with it now.
Posted: Mon - August 2, 2004 at 10:07 PM
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