The Quadrangle

Issue date: 12/8/04 Section: Perspectives

The other day an "anti-war" liberal classmate talking about the results of the election said: "The terrorists should come and blow up the middle of the country for voting for him." I could not believe my ears, and upon letting her know of my surprise to her comment she added "...and the White House too." At the moment I was completely shocked at those remarks. As someone who loves this country dearly, those comments completely blew me away, but then later I remembered that I shouldn't be shocked because unfortunately that is the train of thought of many liberals, leftists and so called peaceniks (same thing to me). They are mostly hypocrites. These are the same people who either have their heads stuck in the sand or live in a cloud of pink elephants were everything is pretty, and who supposedly believe in the slogans of "Giving peace a chance" and "War is never the answer." They will tell you how much the government wants to restrict civil liberties and the first amendment, and they would talk incessantly about how evil President Bush is for the war in Iraq and his policy of preemption. Right up until the point that things don't come out their way, in which case they wish the death of millions of Americans by our enemies, in our homeland for simply disagreeing with them and exercising their freedom of speech and their right to vote whose choice happens to not coincide with theirs. Those so-called peaceniks who make such remarks are extreme, self-hating Americans of the dangerous kind. Their entire ideology is a contradiction and all they care about is basically what they "feel" is right because it makes them feel good as human beings at that present moment. I figured I'd address some of the things they disagree with just to shed some light on their mentality. And even though I think the ones who want to blow up our country and make threats to the President are lost cases, maybe the ones who are truly pacifists and think that "war is never the answer" and that we must always "give peace a chance" can wake up and realize that they are not Don Quixote and face reality here in the real world. First on the policy of preemption, see, like everyone else, I like to hope for the best, but unlike Don Quixote, I don't care about dreaming far fetched impossible dreams. If the solution to a human problem will not happen within our natural lifetime I think is better to try to focus on other solutions that are more attainable. As beautiful as it sounds I disagree with the notion that "war is never the answer" because many times is unavoidable (yes including Iraq which I'll get to), sometimes the use of force is the only way to stop an enemy or a human tragedy, we must see that as a simple reality and not waste time wishing with our heads in the sand that it wasn't so. I know I don't need to tell you this but we all know that humans have always found ways and excuses to destroy each other. I do not believe that it will ever end. Therefore as a nation we must always be prepared for it, especially now when we have a large group with an ideology that not only hates us, it has acted on it for years until it eventually attacked us on our own soil on 9/11. Many leftists will tell you that U.S. national security is not the most important thing in the world. Well, to anyone who lives in this country it should be. For most of us we live here, our families live here, our loved ones live here, and we want to eventually get married and have a family here because with all its flaws this is the greatest nation on the face of the earth. And if I did not think so I would find my favorite country and I would move there. So I would hate to even think that an enemy would destroy the lives of other people who live here and damage this great nation because they hate us for whatever reason they might have. Have our politicians made mistakes in different parts of the world? of course they have. But I do not care the reason, the deliberate killing of innocent people in our country is unacceptable and I agree with eliminating any threat to our people. See, most people will tell you that they remember 9/11 but one thing they have forgotten is the way the felt on 9/11. When I think of 9/11 I still get angry as much as I was during those days and the fact is I do not want to stop feeling angry when I think of 9/11. The moment you stop feeling angry, you get complacent and then you bring your guard down. These leftist have gone beyond complacency, and in their twisted mentality they believe that we should fight this war on terror on the defensive side alone. If we want to prevent 9/11 from happening again, we must keep our guard up and stay on the offensive, bring the war to them instead of them bringing it to us. That is why I agree with preemption I rather go after them first, than to sit around and just wait for them to hit us and kill hundreds or thousands of innocent people in order for us to do something about it. Doing that is what I call giving peace a chance, which in regards to Bin Laden Clinton did, and what did we get eventually? We got 9/11. We cannot believe in that anymore, I do not believe in that anymore. Us being preemptive? 9/11 was one of many preemptive strikes against us! Before 9/11 we knew Bin Laden planned and coordinated all those attacks against us overseas, and what did we do? We shot missiles, we missed and didn't follow through. I'm politically correct up to a point, so here is something else that peaceniks may find off the wall. 9/11 showed that there are people in this planet who simply put, must be killed. The longer they stay alive the more innocent people they will kill. There are many dictators whom I would agree of disposing in an instant, but our priorities should be placed on those who are declared enemies of our nation. Bin laden is one (of course), Little Kim from North Korea is another one, we have Saddam now, but before that, he was on my list. And no, I do not believe that just because they only kill their own people it shouldn't be any of our business. Again, war is not the answer? Well how else could we have stopped the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo by Milosevic? the same thing with Bosnia. Ok we gave peace a chance in Rwanda, and only a little more than 800,000 people were killed in about 180 days. See, that is something that makes my blood boil. The tragedy of Kosovo and the rest of the Balkans happened in Europe's own backyard and neither the Europeans nor the rest of the world did anything about it until we decided to step in and stop it with force. But then, leftists, liberals and Anti American idiots like Michael Moore criticize us for stepping in and stopping those kinds of tragedies with war. An even when we do nothing about it e.g. Rwanda, then many criticize us for not doing so. (so much for giving peace a chance). It is ridiculous. Right now in Sudan thousands of people are being slaughtered, we are preoccupied with Iraq and Afghanistan, and what is the world, the UN doing to stop that tragedy? Barely ANYTHING!!, the UN is dragging its feet or should I say they are "giving peace a chance" ( Of course while people keep getting slaughtered). History has shown that if we (The U.S) do not take the leadership on acting by force (WAR) in different world tragedies the rest of the world, the UN, doesn't do ANYTHING about it to put a stop to it. Preemption? You bet! Now in regards t

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