Fighting Terrorism with Terrorism

[samiaseo222]

Many in the American media and government are screaming for mass destruction against America's newly perceived enemies. Recent opinion polls (CBS and CNN) show that 60 to 75 percent of the American people endorse warfare against suspected terrorists.

They support these actions (and I quote the poll question precisely) "even if it causes the deaths of thousands of innocent people." It hurts my heart to think that a vast majority of the American people take exactly the same view toward innocent human life as did the terrorists of September 11.

So far, I have heard no one, not one of the great moral job function email list media pontificators, the President of the United States, our church leaders, or anyone else of prominence who is brave enough to point out this blatant moral hypocrisy.

So we are now going to fight terrorism. So what happens when America goes out and bombs the hell out of countries and indiscriminately kills "thousands of innocent people." Will we really end the threat of terrorism? America has done the same thing before. Let's take a look at how it has worked out for us.

As pointed out earlier, in 1986 the Israelis gave America false evidence against Libya and induced us to bomb the hell out of the country. We bombed a nation to "fight terrorism" for a crime it did not even commit.