America's Most Justified War

StopDemocrats.com ^ | September 30, 2001 | Carlos Leon

[Cuban123]

America's Most Justified War Carlos Leon
America has been involved in many wars throughout it's history. From the Revolutionary War when the Americans fought the British to the war in Serbia in 1999 when the U.S. together with NATO fought Slobodan Milosevic. Every war that America has fought is arguable to some people. Benedit Arnold became a traitor in the Revolutionary War when he committed treason against the US and one of the biggest questions about World War II is if Harry Truman did the right thing by dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan said "If the United States is going to behave as a Roman empire, a global empire, what we saw at the Trade Center is the beginning of the price of trying to uphold that empire" in response to the fact that the US has contributed to foreign wars, Walter Conkrite said "'I think it's time for us to say we've done the best we could-money, materials, the blood of our soldiers have all gone into this effort ... we should seek an honorable peace" after coming back to the states after reporting from Vietnam on one of his national broadcasts on CBS, and most recently Liberal Representative Barbara Lee of California said "some of us must urge the use of restraint" and voted against giving President Bush the power to declare war. All of these people have not agreed with American actions regarding war. But the war that was started at 8:45 am Eastern time on September 11 in New York, the war that was declared on America on that day of infamy, is a war that should have no dissent because this new war is America's most justified war.

Those, like the ignorant Marxists that On September 29 protested the war in Washington and New York (of all places!), have to understand that this war that we are fighting is necessary. We are not intervening in some foreign land where we have some sort of interest (like oil in Kuwait) or helping some foreign group topple a dictatorship (like the Contras in Nicaragua in the 1980's). We are retaliating against a barbaric act on AMERICAN soil, against AMERICAN civilians, against AMERICAN landmarks, against America as a society and America as a nation. This event has never occurred in American history. The closest to it was Pearl Harbor when Japan ordered the bombing of the military instalation and killed 2,403 American servicemen. The toll in New York is already 5,219 (as of September 30) and this does not include the other 180 killed in the Pentagon, the 45 killed in the field in Pennsylvania, and the fact that among the victims there are both military personnel as well as civilians.

Many people argue that America will be seen as cruel if we bomb Afghanistan. That the goal of this war is to get rid of the terrorists and not a government. That it's impossible for President Bush to declare war when a country has not declared war on us. But the fact is that Afghanistan ,represented by the Taliban, has painted a very large target on itself for the past two weeks. While almost the entire world, both allies as close as Britain and former enemies as far as Russia and China, aligned itself with the United States, the Taliban sent a threat to the Arab world telling the countries that if they helped the United States in this war, they would declare war on them. The Taliban also rejected various requests by one of their closest allies, Pakistan, to hand over bin-Laden during several meetings. If the United States government never singled out Afghanistan as a terrorist state and never blamed them for anything, in fact the State Department did not include them as one of the seven countries that support terrorism in their 2000 report on States that sponsor terrorism, then why have they been so supportive of Osama bin Laden and why have they refused ,in such a vehement way, to help the US? Is it because they support Osama bin Laden and they support and harbor terrorism?, of course.

The Left argues that war will not resolve anything because Osama bin Laden is not the only terrorist and that by getting rid of him terrorism will not end. There is no doubt that terrorism will continue even if the US captures and kills Osama bin Landen but the question is to what extent. By getting rid of Osama bin Laden you are sucking out the air of the terrorist movement which bin Laden runs (al-Qaida). He isn't just a Saudi-born Millionaire who decided to slam a handful of airplanes into important American landmarks because he woke up one morning and felt like it. He is the leader of a world-wide terrorist network that bombed U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998, bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, and blew up the USS Cole last year. This is a man worth millions of dollars that has set up terrorist training camps around the world since 1979 where he trains, feeds, and shelters these terrorists that are full of hate. By getting rid of him, you are getting rid of the leader a movement, the same way the Holocaust ended because Hitler was defeated, the Soviet Union broke up because Gorbachev resigned, Yugoslavia became a democracy after Milosevic was ousted by the people, and Peru rebuilt it's Democratic government after Alberto Fujimori was taken out of power for corruption. Anti-semitism still exists in Europe and elsewhere, Socialist politicians still get elected in some countries, and corruption still exists in Peru, but these things do not exist to the level that existed when these leaders were there.

This war that America is now in will be long and hard. It will affect the way Americans live, security at airports, military spending, security at major events, invasion of privacy issues, ect. This is why we must support the war whether the government uses diplomatic or military force. Americans cannot stand around and ask for "peace" while Osama bin Laden is planning more attacks against us. America must wake up to the fact that if we do not defend ourselves and show strong force against the terrorists and the countries that harbor them they will defeat us. We must support this war for the victims; the children, the firefighters, the rescue workers, the newly born baby named Hope that was not able to meet her father, the women that was unable to get married with her fiance, the man that lost both his sister and niece, and for America, because it is for these people and for this country that we must support this new war against terror, America's most justified war.

Carlos Leon is an 18 year old Cuban-American student. He is also the editor and founder of StopDemocrats.com, a conservative website.

[MJY1288]

Oh my, we have a middle easterner telling us how we never get the truth. Considering most if not all of the middle east has state run media and you never vote for the people in charge! we are to believe you and not the people we vote into office?

I know this, it was middle eastern terrorist who killed 6,000 innocent Americans, I know this, 95% of all terroist are born and bread in the middle east. I know this, It is now time for these Islamic radicals to pay for their crimes against innocent people.

You people worship lost souls like Osama bin Laden who denounces western culture, but he profits from his investments in our way of life. I cal that the heighth of hypocracy. THINK ABOUT IT

[Layth]

No, I was very upset because life is scared (no matter what faith they follow).

[vbmoneyspender]

Why don't you tell us what country you are from?

Are you embarrassed by your country?

[Layth]

Saudi Arabia.

[vbmoneyspender]

How dare you lecture Americans on the bona fides of our system of governance. It is simply incredible that you could have the temerity to question our gov't given the way your gov't treats women and non-Muslims in Saudi Arabia.

[vbmoneyspender]

P.S. Layth, when was it exactly that Saudia Arabia entered the 20th Century by outlawing salvery. Wasn't it sometime in the 60's.

[Weirdad]

Regarding "#3 Posted on 09/30/2001 21:38:04 PDT by Yellow Rose of Texas

Afghanistan is a living "Lord of the Flies". The children are in charge with no adults in sight. We have to be the adults that bring their reign of terror to an end, now and forever."

Well said!

[Layth]

P.S. Layth, when was it exactly that Saudia Arabia entered the 20th Century by outlawing salvery. Wasn't it sometime in the 60's.

Wasn't that the same decade that Martin Luther King was shot in the US for trying to get black garbage workers to be paid the same as white folks!.

Layth

[vbmoneyspender]

Nice try. We didn't fund and develop Islamic Terrorism anymore than Saudi Arabia is a democracy. By the way, when was the last time you voted in an election. And aren't you embarrassed to be a citizen of a country that condoned slavery up until the 1960's. Aren't you also embarrassed to be a citizen of a country that has so little regard for its citizens that it won't extend to them basic freedoms like freedom of the press and the right to bear arms and freedom of religion. Just admit it, your country is a pathetic dictatorship that is filled with people who have no regard for freedom or other basic human rights.

[vbmoneyspender]

You should be really scared Layth, because we are bringing freedom to the Middle East and the zealots that live there, including the ones in Saudia Arabia, are going to lose their power. America's ideology of the 'most amount of freedom for the greatest number of people' is superior to the ideology that your fundamentalists espouse and they know it and they ain't going to be able to do anything to stop it.

[vbmoneyspender]

Oh, I am sorry, I forgot that freedom is represented by making porn movies, exploiting women and having sex out of wed-lock!.

You are incredible. Like they don't have porn in Saudia Arabia. And as far as exploitation of women is concerned, your country is a complete joke. For a Western equivalent of how women are treated in Saudia Arabia, you have to go back 500 years if not more. Finally, with regard to sex out of wedlock, are you telling me that not one citizen of Saudia Arabia has ever had sex out of wedlock.

[be-baw]

Layth,

I would like to think that people like Osama bin Laden are on the lunatic fringe and that their actions don't represent all of Islam. However, I have yet to see any 'scripture' from the Koran that would indicate that Moslems desire peace and do not wish to destroy all non-Moslems. Do you consider yourself a devout Moslem? Can you show me something from the Koran that demonstrates that your religion is not a war-mongering, intolerant one?

[Rudder]

Just when I was beginning to make clear in my mind a distinction between good muslims and terrorist muslims, you come along and blur everything. Some say that we should not persecute innocent muslims, I agree--but they're becoming difficult to find.

[HiTech RedNeck]

don't bother with Layth. no current freeper by that name LOL

[reg45]

Wasn't it sometime in the 60's.

Wasn't that the decade when Robert F. Kennedy was asassinated by Sirhan B. Sirhan (another Middle Eastern Terrorist)!

[Rudder]

don't bother with Layth. no current freeper by that name LOL

Ahhh, another example of America's Infinite Justice in action!