GOP: Party of FEAR

[5stringJeff]

Why are Gopers so scared? We get hit by terrorists one time, and we have to alter our whole way of life. Al Qaida didn't shut down our markets for days after the attack, we did. Al Qaida didn't shut down airtraffic in the entire US for days, we did. In the future we cannot respond the same way. Doing so legitimizes the methods of Terrorists, it gives powerless people the ability to hurt us by forcing us to do to ourselves what they cannot. Responding the way we did after 9-11 turns common criminals into heroes of the Islamic world. For they accomplished in one day, what the Muslim World has been able to accomplish because they are powerless people.

Way to belittle the deaths of 3,000 Americans. And in case you forgot, all airplanes were grounded because we were being attacked by AIRPLANES. And calling terrorists common criminals is pretty misleading... they came into the country and trained for months to carry out what they did. A little bit more than Joe Schmoe robbing the liquor store.

Bush says the world has to be either with us or against us. I'm afraid its the other way around. The rest of the world has been living with terror for quite some time. We have been sheltered from it.

So we should just "deal with it"?!? WTF? I, for one, am happy that we are taking the fight to the terrorists. I'm glad that we are not rolling over and surrendering to the terrorists' demands.

Its time we join with the rest of the world to deal with this problem. One thing is for certain, and the 9-11 report confirmed this...We cannot win this war on our own and we cannot win it with bombs alone. We have to educate Muslims around the world. Right now, they send there kids to Wahabi schools that teach hatred of everyone else, because they have no alternative, they either go to Islamic hate school, or they go to no school at all. Gopers method of bombing our way to "victory" can have only one outcome...failure. It may satisfy the blood lust of the base desires of the Right Wing public, but it does not solve the problem. We have to engage the Muslim world with education. Sometimes we may need to use force, but not every problem is a nail and us the hammer.

So how exactly would you educate OBL, or al-Qaeda, or Islamic Jihad, or Hezbollah, to the point where they would no longer desire to carry out terrorist attacks? What would you say? How on earth would you be able to undo thousands of lives through "education?' This has got to be the most insane theory ever.

 

[Annie]