The Abu Sayef (sp?)- after terrorizing the Philippine islanders for years, butchering, and burning villages- have been confronted and routed, their leader killed by newly (American-) trained Philippino soldiers.
All over the world those who live in fear of these terrorists are finding the courage to fight back. The Palestinian people marched on Arafat demanding food and jobs. Starving N. Koreans are so grateful that after 50 years of mass murdering innocents, someone had the courage to call their brutal country part of the "axis of evil."
The Vietnamese did not casually murder thousands of American civilians on American soil and set as their goal the murder of millions more.
We will track down the terrorists and take 'em out....for decades to come, if necessary.
We have no choice, imho. This is as just a cause as any we're likely to face in this world.
Malcontents on the War Effort, Ollie North.
Life in Wartime,(we, not the terrorists, are winning).
On January 20, 2001, George W. Bush was sworn in as the 43rd president of the United States. Within months of taking office, he ordered a new strategy for combating terrorism that would be more than just "swatting at flies," as he described Clinton's policy. The new plan reached the President's desk on September 10, 2001. It was "too late," as columnist Andrew Sullivan wrote, "But it remains a fact that the new administration had devised in eight months a strategy that Bill Clinton had delayed for eight years."
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