Response to David Allen

Submitted by Arlinda DeAngelis (United States), Feb 17, 2008 at 15:25

We have fought our own wars of liberation and for the liberation of others. War and all that it implies is never in the interest of the United States. We fight them as a last resort. Appeasement is not a last resort ... not ever. It makes a totalitarian, an oppressor stronger.

Islamofascism with its oppression and denegration of others along with its murderous stance on the Jews whom they singled out since the creation of Israel is not a tolerable belief system in a peaceful world. On September 11th we died by the thousands because nineteen of them funded, inspired and directed by Al Qaeda and the Taliban ruled by Osama bin Laden decided we were the ultimate evil. This was their second attack. They came back because we appeased them the first time in hopes it would all go away. Maybe we though the desert would reclaim in some kind of eco justice. It didn't. Appeasement was empowerment.

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