US Election 2004

Dana Honeycutt letter regarding the Beslan terrorist attack written to the San Diego Union Tribune draws the important links to Sept. 11 and the War against Terrorism:

Steve Albrecht proposes various defensive measures to protect our schools from a barbaric attack like that in Beslan ("School violence / The terrorists' new weapon here?" Opinion, Sept. 8). But purely defensive measures never have and never will thwart a determined enemy.

If we really want to protect our schools here, we must regain the offensive abroad. We must, as Paul Wolfowitz argued soon after Sept. 11, 2001, "end states who sponsor terrorism," beginning with Iran, the world's biggest terrorist sponsor.

We must stop treating our soldiers in Iraq as social workers and stop tying their hands with "diplomatic" constraints that put Arab public opinion above their lives. We must start taking this war seriously and start fighting it as ruthlessly as we fought World War II.

I hope that Beslan serves as a wake-up call to those lulled to sleep after 9/11. Islamic fundamentalism is a violent ideology that has declared all-out war on Western civilization. It will not be defeated by timidity abroad or purely defensive measures at home.  [D. Honeycutt, Lessons from Beslan, San Diego Union Tribune, 9/12/2004; via HBL]

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