'We Shall Prevail'

The Wall Street Journal ^ | 9/11/03 | BY THEODORE B. OLSON

[Txslady]

We gather today to remember and pay tribute with our hearts and our tears to the loved ones, friends, colleagues and fellow Americans who were savagely murdered on this date two years ago.

We are still stunned and bewildered by the depraved fanaticism that planned and executed the slaughter that day of thousands of helpless, unsuspecting innocent lives, and the infliction of excruciatingly painful and unhealable damage on thousands more. The audacity of the attack, the breathtaking scope of the damage inflicted, and the depth and intensity of the inhuman rage that propelled the attackers is simply incomprehensible to us. Each of us that day was in some way a victim of a level and quality of violence that most of us had never even imagined in our lives. And we each suffer today in different ways from those September 11 moments when the ground beneath us trembled and our lives forever changed.

[Catspaw]

Just when I thought there could be no more tears today....

[68skylark]

Good post -- this is the most moving statement I've read about 9/11 and how we should respond.

[Txslady]

I too thought it was a good article. :)

[LarryM]

Just the right words. Now if can only convince his boss to stop protecting Arafat amd Hamas from their just retribution.

[68skylark]

Well you make a good point. One of the things that struck me in this article is that it makes an explicit link between 9/11 and terrorist attacks in other countries, including Israel.

It bugs me when I hear U. S. officials say that Israel shouldn't fight back against terrorism the way that we fight back. (Sec. Powel and the State Department are notorious for this line of reasoning.) Seems to me that distinction is being erased by Mr. Olson.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

May God bring comfort to Mr. Olson.

[colorado tanker]

"We will either root it out and extinguish it wherever it may hide, or it will find us and strip us of our safety, happiness and everything we cherish.

But we can succeed if we have the strength, resolution and the willingness to persevere."

I wish the Dim dwarves running for President would get this message.

May God bless and comfort Ted Olson.

[colorado tanker]

Bush made a good faith effort to mediate peace between Israel and the Palis. The Palis have shown they are not yet willing to give up terror or their goal of eradicating Israel. Without that there is no basis for a deal.

Time to take the handcuffs off Israel and let them fight their own war on terror.

[Txslady]

and her sister Toni Lawrence and the rest of their families.

[wastoute]

I hate to say it, but we don't have what it takes to win the "War on Terrorism". Certainly someone who has paid as high a price as Ted Olsen might know it, but we just don't. You don't stamp out malaria by handing out flyswatters and standing guard at the edge of town. You drain the swamp. We simply don't have the hardness of heart to wipe out the communities where these jihaddis spawn. As long as you leave two mosquitos and a thimlbe of water, there will be more mosquitos, and as long as you leave a handfull of these fanatics in a hole somewhere there will be more of them.

[Txslady]

... and I believe we do have what it takes. It is sad to me that you feel we don't- but, that is your right to believe however it is you choose to believe.

[wastoute]

I don't know that I have what it takes. What I was referring to is total annihilation of every community that gives rise to these terrorists. I don't just mean "surgical stirkes", etc. I mean Biblical cleansing. Every living thing, including the animals.

For example, yesterday I heard that the Palestinians were rallying to Arafat. Immediatley in my mind came the response, great, in a logical world, the Israelis could just Napalm the whole area and "PRESTO", Peace. After all, just about every one who feels strongly enough to strap a couple pounds of C4 to his chest for their cause is probably in the crowd. Of course, the world would be horrified and we would all proclaim our indignation, but think about it. The Israelis would only have to live with the indignation for such a thing for a while and then it would be over. The present course they are on means they have to live with the indignation for their "surgical strikes" which is dragging out for year after year.

Like I said, I don't know that I have the stomach for "what needs to be done", but IMHO we won't win until we do.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

One last heartwrenching, important 9-11 tribute - and "call to arms":

September 11 can be remembered not as a beginning of a slide into chaos, but as the beginning of the end of blind, ruthless, random brutality, and the tears of orphaned children, the screams of hideously burned bodies, and the numbing grief that terrorism delivers. We cannot give up until that goal is attained, whether it comes in our lifetime or not.

To contact Solicitor General: Theodore B. Olson:

 

Office of the Solicitor General

950 Pennsylvania Ave., NW

Washington, D.C.   20530-0001

202-514-2203

[MEG33]

This is so powerful no matter who would say it but especially so said by Ted Olson who lost his wonderful Barbara.May God be with him always.

[blackie]

We Shall Prevail ~ Bump!

A powerful statement by Ted Olson!

[PhilDragoo]

Barbara Olson warned of the Clintons in Hell to Pay and The Final Days [on my shelf now]--and it is America's great loss that she died in the terrible attack.

The Clintons refused to take Osama bin Laden when Sudan offered him up numerous times.

That Osama bin Laden was free to do this terrible deed is entirely their fault.

Now the strong and the brave are in control, and will lift up the torch from the fallen--

--and use it to set fire to the beasts responsible.

Hamas no mas, and al Queda pureed into marmaleda--we shall prevail, big time.

[windchime]

"We must commit ourselves to the only goal that is worthy of their memories: to eradicate the disease that killed them, wherever it is and however long is takes. Their suffering and deaths must fuel our dedication to stamp out this cancer, and, in doing so, save those we love, and those who come after us, from future September elevens and the pain, loneliness and helplessness we experienced on that day two years ago and have lived with every day since then."


This man is able to express a depth of feeling that few can communicate.

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!