As Printed in the AZ Republic



Isolationist policy won't stop terror
Oct. 31, 2003 12:00 AM


Regarding Robert Robb's column Wednesday, "Why is U.S. such a target?":

I at least like his tone: not dripping with hate the way most Bush-haters are these days.

But Robb is wrong. These fanatics hate everyone. Besides the Sept. 11, 2001, atrocity, they have killed citizens in Bali, workers from the United Nations and the Red Cross in Baghdad and even fellow Saudis in Saudi Arabia. These miscreants hate anything that does not follow their anti-freedom credo of taking the world back the 10th century.

Jimmy Carter pulled the rug on the shah and we got the ayatollah. Saddam Hussein killed more Muslims than anyone in history.

We are at least opposing Arafat under Bush, not kissing him in the Rose Garden as Clinton did.

Be plain about what you want. What Robb wants is an isolationist, cut-and-run policy. Maybe he can gain support for his position, but then we will be fighting in Cleveland, not Baghdad.