A Terrorist is Born

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Never one to shy away from tooting my own horn, regretfully or otherwise, I came across this item this morning about a crop of babies born in Gaza today, named after the Hamas Leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who was assassinated yesterday by Israel.

On September 14th, 2001, I wrote a “Speech to the Nation�were I President” to no one in particular that I shared only with my family and a friend or two at the time (the family, by the way, was quite critical of it).

Reading the news item above, I recalled the following paragraph from that “speech”:

We must avoid the easy, and well-justified, temptation to avenge. To create more hostility, and, as Nobel Peace Laureate Nelson Mandela so wisely said, �to avoid any course of action that will be as unpopular as the terrorists� in the eyes of the world. For if we fail to do so, certain death and destruction will inevitably be borne from it. Borne by rash and imprudent action. Both by us, and by those that wish to destroy us. For every Usama bin Laden that we destroy, a thousand will be born in his place.

I’ve heard Bush and Israeli Officials over the last 24 hours describe Yassin as “Israel’s Bin Laden”. And today, we seem to – quite literally – have quite a few more “Yassins” born in his place.

Something to ponder as we continue down the short-sighted, narrow-minded, fear-based, vengeful, seek-and-destroy strategy currently employed as our own “War on Terror”. I have no reason to believe that this strategy will work any better for us than it has for Israel.

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    John said on 8/16/2006 @ 5:45pm PT: [Permalink]

    I really think the correct heading should read:

    “A terrorist party is born” You people actually fight for the enemy, ISLAMIC FASCISM!!! The Democratic party has moved so far to the left that what once was wrong was wrong and things that were right seemed right! EVERYTHING with you liberal pieces of shit is up side down!!!! Do you have any idea at all what you are doing? These VERMIN want world domination, yes America is at the top of their list! I for one will not let this happen as long as I’m alive. WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! John

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    Agent99 said on 8/16/2006 @ 5:56pm PT: [Permalink]

    John

    Are you locked in a time warp somewhere? Why do you keep ranting in the past? The United States of America is being run by vermin who want world domination. All you do is go back and threaten Neil Young once a week or so, and now this. Get a grip. And, I’d invite you into the present, but maybe we like you back here better.

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