Some people compare the recent attacks on our country to Pearl Harbor but it’s far worse. Pearl Harbor was a military target, the World Trade Center was a civilian one. These terrorists have not awakened the sleeping giant, they have attacked a complacent one. A giant who refused to see, until it was too late, the disastrous consequences of his policies of restraint and appeasement.
They have blown airliners out of the sky, bombed our embassies in Africa and the response was a show trial of low level “expendable” people and pinprick cruise missile attacks. The terrorists laughed. They bombed the USS Cole, America did nothing.
We now have perhap 6,000 dead, next time it may be 6 million. These people hate America with every fiber of their being – restraint and appeasement will not work.
I agree with those who say America should stay out of the world’s business. We can start by stopping all foreign aid, quit being the first country on the scene when natural disasters strike anywhere in the world or perhaps stop supplying food and medicine to drought stricken regions. Yes, it’s time to mind our own business.
Marysville
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