Fair enough. However, I hope you would agree that we must closely watch US foreign policy and our handling of terrorism.
In Kosovo, our State Department first said the UCK/KLA are "shadowy terrorists," "Che Guavera wanna-be's" considered by Interpol as the "scourge of Europe." But we send US State Dpt. emmissaries to negotiate with them anyway. Encouraged, these slaving narco-marfia-thug terrorists stepped up their terrorism (with help from CIA and Bin Laden AT THE SAME TIME) until the Yugoslavs struck back. The next thing you know, we're rewarding their terrorism BIG TIME, ignoring international law and the NATO Charter, using NATO as their air force. Now repeating the process in Macedonia (rewarding terrorists).
We condemned the Russians for trying to knock out the Chechen terrorists who were bombing their cities.
Then what does Clinton do? Tries to force some ridiculous "Mid-East Peace" for the sake of his "legacy" (with Chelsea in attendance, no less). Who among us didn't think he was playing with fire with that?
Well, we rewarded (in Kosovo) and sympathised with (Russia/Chechnya) terrorists before , especially when the terrosts were ruthless enough to provoke strong retaliation -- so what card did Arafat naturally play? Now Israel is aflame, with any hope for a peaceful settlement in the near future dead.
Where were the protests in the US while all this was played out?
I hope we have learned a lesson here. I only wish to Heaven it had not been such an unimagineably costly lesson.
The American people must be vigilant, and we must never, ever again sit back while our President and SOS reward terrorism. What we reward, we encourage.
I posted this article and made the above simple statement. I made one simple request and that is for us to "not stop thinking". I did that on purpose as it seems like a completely reasonable request that neither supports the terrorist actions of Tuesday, nor calls for the blood of any innocents.
I believe the people that are directly responsible for Tuesday's terrorist attacks should suffer a very slow and painful death, but I purposely avoided making any calls to violence because this site is already swimming in hate. All I ask is that we simply don't stop thinking.
On the Balkan threads I am often accused of being a rabid anti-Muslim and ultra-nationalist, and now I'm accused of being an apologist for terrorist. I think I may have a solution. On Balkan threads I will simply plead that the Serbs negotiate with the terrorists and try to be nicer to them no matter how many terrorist attacks are delivered against the Serbs. I will plead with the Serbs to start negotiating with the KLA and Bosnian Muslim terrorists and start compromising the way the US wishes them to, but I will call for the total anihilation of Muslims when it's in reference to the terrorist attacks against America.
On second thought. Nah. I'm just going to keep on thinking.
By the way, I've chosen to flag all of you because, sadly, you folks are the only few on this thread to not be offended by a simple call "to think".