At the very least, the 109th Congress
should:
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stress to the administration that the joint resolution
approved by the Senate and House of Representatives authorized the
president ‘‘to use all necessary and appropriate force against those
nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized,
committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11,
2001,’’ not to wage an amorphous war on ‘‘evil’’;
urge the administration to focus
the war on terrorism only on the al-Qaeda terrorist network and not expand
it to other terrorist groups or countries that have not attacked the
United States;
urge the administration to reduce
military operations in Afghanistan and expand military operations into the
Peshawar border region in Pakistan to root out al-Qaeda and Taliban
forces;
recognize that much of the war
against terrorism will not involve military action but will emphasize
diplomatic, intelligence, and law enforcement cooperation with other
countries;
refuse
to provide funds for U.S. military presence and interventions overseas
that are not required to defend U.S. vital interests and could result in
catastrophic retaliatory attacks on the U.S. homeland by terrorists using
weapons of mass destruction;
resist "anti-terrorism" initiatives
that would undermine civil liberties and be
ineffective in preventing terrorist attacks; and
consider using a small portion of the savings
from reducing unnecessary defense programs
to stockpile antidotes to common chemical and biological agents and to
train emergency response personnel to mitigate the effects of catastrophic
attacks.
The U.S. defense and intelligence system failed
to protect Americans from Terrorism on September 11th because it is based on
re-fighting World War II and the Cold War, and no fundamental reforms have
been made since. Details
In addition, this same defense system
did not appreciate the long-term dangers of giving military
aid to Islamic terrorists twenty years ago when these terrorists were
"freedom fighters" against Communism.
During Iraq's war with U.S. enemy Iraq,
the U.S. gave aid to Saddam Hussein's dictatorship:
9-11 should have forced a wholesale
re-evaluation of America's defense and foreign policy. Instead, the defense
machinery went into high gear in the same wrong-headed direction, destroying
the liberties of Americans. Consider this metaphor:
The
Exterminators
You hire an exterminator to
protect your home from termites. The exterminator promises that his
protection will give you the freedom to enjoy the blessings of
homeownership. You spend more for the exterminators than you do for
the education of your children. Every now and then you see a show of
force, making you think the exterminators are on the job and your
house is safe from termites.
Then one day a wall of your house
caves in, revealing a long-active termite infestation. Evidence
indicates that the exterminators you hired had been breeding these
termites in the hopes that they would attack your neighbor, who had
hired a rival exterminator. You're ready to fire your exterminator,
but you are told:
- You have no choice in the
exterminator you want to protect your house.
- Your exterminator has declared
a "war on termites," and this means you will not be
permitted to use your kitchen for the duration of the war. You
will have to unload your groceries down the block and walk to your
house, and be searched at the door.
- You will have to pay much more
for the "services" of these exterminators than you were
paying them before they allowed termites to infest your home.
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Does this make any sense? Am I
"unpatriotic" for asking these questions?
The World Trade Center was not the first American building to be destroyed
by Islamic terrorists:
Nor is this the first time in history that Muslim nations have been in
conflict with a Christian nation. Two
hundred years ago, General William Eaton, a major figure in the Barbary
Powers conflict, spoke of a similar conflict. Eaton was first appointed by
President John Adams as "Consul to Tunis," (next to modern-day
Libya) and President Thomas Jefferson later advanced him to the position of
"U. S. Naval Agent to the Barbary States," authorizing him to lead a
military expedition against Tripoli. Eaton’s official correspondence during
his service confirms that the conflict was a Muslim war against a Christian
America. For example, when writing to Secretary of State Timothy Pickering,
Eaton apprised him of why the Muslims would be such dedicated foes:
Taught by revelation that war with the
Christians will guarantee the salvation of their souls, and finding so great
secular advantages in the observance of this religious duty [the secular
advantage of keeping captured cargoes], their [the Muslims’] inducements to
desperate fighting are very powerful. (more
details)
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- Extreme Islam: Anti-American Propaganda of the Islamic Revolution
Other terrorist acts, unacknowledged by the U.S. government:
Harry Browne:
- What
Can We Do About Terrorism? — Part I, October 4, 2001
- What
Can We Do About Terrorism? — Part II, October 15, 2001
- What
Can We Do About Terrorism? — Part III, October 31, 2001
- Bush
Coup d'Etat, the, December 20, 2001
- Defending our
'Freedoms', May 23, 2002
How
Terrorists Profit from Drugs, March 21, 2002
- I
Love America — Do You?, November 19, 2001
- Isn't It
Time for the Truth?, November 13, 2001
- Libertarians
and Civil Liberties, March 5, 2002
- Myths of
World War II, the, March 25, 2002
- Peace
Amendment, the (a proposed foreign policy Constitutional amendment)
- Republican
Betrayal from A to Z, the, July 28, 1999
- Secret
Trials Endanger Security, December 13, 2001
- Solution
for the Middle East, a, April 11, 2002
This
Just In: Bin Laden Wins the War in Afghanistan, March 14, 2002
- Top
10 Reasons to Get the U.S. out of Yugoslavia, May 3, 1999
- What Has
'Victory' Achieved?, January 10, 2002
- When
Will We Learn? — Part I, September 12, 2001
- When
Will We Learn? — Part II, September 14, 2001
- When
Will We Learn? — Part III, September 17, 2001
- When
Will We Learn? — Part IV, September 19, 2001
- Who Gave
Your Rights Away?, November 27, 2001
Attorney General John Ashcroft recently said: "To those who scare
peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your
tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national
unity and diminish our resolve" (Dec 6, 2001). Helping people see the
importance of the American value of liberty does not aid anti-liberty
terrorists. Giving billions of dollars in military aid to
fanatics dedicated to Islamic Jihad is what aids terrorism. There is no
greater engine of terrorism on earth than the U.S. federal government.
next: Weapons of Mass Destruction
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