Rethinking Our Views About Terrorism and Security

Rethinking Our Views About Terrorism and Security

Dear Editor:

The horrible success of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon are a turning point in the history of our nation. Now that our enemies have demonstrated that they can bring their war into our nation's heartland, some of our basic assumptions must be reconsidered.

Dirty and smelly though intelligence and counter-terrorist work may be, we must unleash and utilize these preventive tools in order to stop dead in their tracks those who would destroy us. A dead terrorist will not be able to attack us.

The murderers who hijacked those four planes and used them for their demonic purposes were all inside of our nation when they boarded the fatal flights. A nation at war with a determined and deadly enemy cannot afford the luxury of open and porous borders with easy access for almost any legal or illegal entrant. Forget all of the pious talk about welcoming all of the immigrants from around the world. The fact is there are people in some nations of the world that would reduce our nation to ashes. Only boundless stupidity would allow a steady flow of visitors and immigrants from those nations to flow into ours. Since we cannot look at the immigrants from a militant Moslem society and be sure which is or is not a terrorist, let all of them stay home until world peace is once again established.

Our survival also demands that a tough look be taken at all of those presently in our country from those areas of the world dominated by anti-American political forces. Any other nation in the world would round up and send home foreign nationals who happen to be in their midst when an act of war occurs. So should we.

Perhaps it is time to take a serious look at those icons of American political correctness, pluralism and multiculturalism. The spokesmen for these social concepts are continually telling us that every culture is equally beautiful, valuable and beneficial; that all religions are equally peaceful and useful to society. The reality is that many of the middle-eastern nations are dominated and controlled by a religion and culture that is bloody and violent. Its adherents take pleasure in killing innocent civilians, including women and children. Frankly I find it highly offensive, as well as patently wrong, to equate militant Islam to Christianity whose disciples are expected to be peacemakers.

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