Elementary Logic: The Sidewalk is NOT causing the rain.


Some misguided souls among us look at the spots of water on the sidewalk and decide the sidewalk is causing the rain. So it is today with some who see the fanatic Muslims spread their murder and killings of innocents around the world. In their denial, they feel it was President Bush’s fault for visiting London that caused there to be terror attacks against British interests in Turkey. No, the terrorists stuck there because they could. It is a measure of the success in the War on Terror that these suicide killers are reduced to hitting soft targets, preferably where there isn’t that much security. But, the terrorists are the one’s doing the killing not the President of the United States. Note that Turkey defied the US, disallowing the US Army access to Iraq from their shores. The Turks probably were doing this with the hope that this would spare them of the terrorist’s attacks. Cowering before these monsters doesn’t help; at least it didn’t stop the bombings in Istanbul.

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.