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The answering machine message from the woman in the tower kills me.

How do we prevent it? - How do we kill the desire to do these things? We can never catch them all if the desire is still out there breeding.

I have to say I am still favoring killing every last terrorist and sympathizer, but we do seem to create two new ones for every one we kill, and the country is already back to its old squabbling. I shake my head.

I don't believe we can *prevent* it...at least, we cannot stop the rise of terrorists. Hell, *we* were considered terrorists at one time, on New World soil. I think what we can do is prepare...and respond with as much purpose as the terrorists. If they are going to pick a fight, they'd better be prepared to finish it. I rather like what Mark Steyn has to say about it...that the best reason for us to go to war with the Middle East (and it *will* be the MIDDLE EAST) is to bring those a**holes to the 21st century.

I am often torn between admiration/confidence in our present President and his ability to lead us, and the seeming quiet there is on anything affirmative or proactive in putting the screws to the terrorists. It is even more disheartening when it seems no on in the domestic agenda has the cajones to set things straight. I dont think all immigrants are bad...I just wish it were a really TOUGH thing to become an American citizen. The %&%#@^%$^&% damn socialists have cheapened it so. I don't worry that our civil rights will be taken away, but I find it alarming that so many people are willing to give up their first ten amendments in the cause of 'safety.' As far as I remember, the First Ten were in full force the morning of Sept. 11...and none of us felt safe.

"How do we prevent it? - "

It actually may not be possible to prevent all of it. But if we can destroy the leadership, wherever it exists, in decisive, forceful, repetitive and unmistakable ways, I believe we will prevent and demoralize most of it.

As a side note, I believe adhering to our traditions of individual liberty and free markets is also pretty essential to our victory.