There is a debate going on in America whether or not the War on Terror is a real war and whether it's worth spending our blood and treasure winning it.
Let's take a little review. In 1979 Muslim Terrorists stormed the U.S. embassy in Iran and took its staff as hostages, tortured some of them and held them for 444 days. When President Jimmy Carter finally got off his dead ass and sent a very small contingent of military to "rescue" the staff it was met with dismal failure, much like most of Jimmy Carters presidency.. When the newly elected Ronald Reagan, took office in 1980 he "spoke softly and carried a big stick" as President Theodore Roosevelt recommended in his day. The Iranians then released the hostages before Ronald Reagan would have launched a full out war against them and rightly so.
Three years later in 1982, Muslim terrorists bombed the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 49 people, including 17 Americans, one year later in 1984 Hezbollah and known Muslim terrorist organization blew up the Marine barracks in Beirut killing 241 marines. Then in 1985 Muslim terrorists seized the Italian cruise ship, The Achille Lauro, Murdered a wheelchair bound Jew by throwing him overboard to drown. In 1986 Muslim Terrorists bombed a West Berlin Disco that was known to be visited by American servicemen. In 1988 Muslim terrorists blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland killing 270 people.
In 1993, the first world Trade Center bombing happened by Muslim terrorists using bombs, killing six and injuring thousands, also in 1993 a Muslim terrorist plot to Murder the first president Bush was foiled. In 1995, Five American were killed by car bomb, planted by Muslim terrorists in Saudi Arabia. In 1996 Muslim Terrorist exploded a truck bomb outside an Air Force complex in Saudi Arabia killing 19 Airmen and wounding thousands more. In 1998 The U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bo0mbed by Muslim Terrorists a total of 212 people were killed and again thousand were injured. In the year 2000 , Our Warship the U.S.S.Cole was attacked by Muslim Terrorists, 17 sailors were killed dozens injured and our war ship totally disabled. Finally, the 19 Terrorist that flew Jets filled wit Innocent American Passengers in the Twin Towers killing over 3000 people along with the strike against the pentagon and the Crash in Pennsylvania.
Is it really true that One Democratic Presidential candidate claims The war on terror is nothing more than a "bumper sticker" war? Shame on you John Edwards!
There continues to be much talk about what constitute "racial profiling" Former Secretary of transportation Norman Mineta, whose family was treated so badly during the Franklin Roosevelt Administration, when thousands of loyal Americans of Japanese descent were forced into Concentration camps colored federal policy on "racial Profiling" and was stamped by him as not politically correct!
The Federal Government, in its obsessive drive for "equality" has REQUIRED that at airports every tenth or so person MUST be singled out for special scrutiny by the TSA security Guards, This has often resulted in children, old ladies and pregnant mothers being singled out while Faruk Mohammad blithely walks through without a second look. Profiling being prohibited, the airlines were FINED if they questioned more than two young Arab males in a single day. Federal Policy considers this "discriminatory".
When 100% of airport bombing have been committed by Young Muslims in the last twenty years it ceases to be profiling and becomes a description of a subject! America's response to a cold blooded calculating enemy, has been to say " Excuse me, you dropped your box cutter"
Alexander Hamilton, one of our foundling fathers, warned: " Nothing is more common than for a free people, in times of heat and violence, to gratify momentary passions, by letting into the government, principles and precedents which afterwards prove fatal to themselves"
Let's also hope that 'POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS NOT CAUSING US TO DO SO"!
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