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Posted November 6, 2001

Plot

The John Laughland article ["The Great Euro-American Plot," October 26] was a real winner. Thanks.

~ Prudy

People Who Paraded

...I think that it is time to realize that some civilian casualties will occur. These are people who paraded when they attacked us. Thank God that we have the greatest military on the planet, let's give them our support. God bless America.

~ Eric

The "Backtalk" editor replies:

Actually, the civilians are Afghanis, who neither attacked us nor paraded.

Case-By-Case Basis

RC: What's next? VW bugs with flowers painted on them? Another free sex era in the middle of the AIDS epidemic? Your arrogance is beyond belief and your ideals are more than a little absurd. This is not the sixties. The one thing that never caught on from that wave of social consciousness, was responsible protests.

Only the naive think that the rest of the world holds the same values and ideals as we do. That they respect and protect human life the way we do. That they want and deserve the things we have. Americans deserve the things we have because our industrious nature, our work ethic, and a societal structure that rewards these virtues.

It may not be you, but in your family tree someone has paid these debts to allow you the luxury of your idiosyncratic political beliefs. Maybe it's the person who set up your trust fund or pays for your college tuition, or other benevolent benefactor who shielded you from reality, and then armed you with education.

War is a viable consequence for any and all who attack our country. In the past America in itself has been naïve in the people it has supported, but we have dealt with these criminals on a case-by-case basis and in most cases the regions these brigands controlled are still better off than if we had done nothing.

Eric Garris: I am so sorry you chose to write such a long letter without actually reading any of the articles on our website. Had you done so, you would have found that your prejudices based upon our name are unfounded.

RC: I offer you my sincerest apology if I misunderstood your site's content. I did read the article from Penn State students ["The Top Five Lies about This War"].

I will look more closely at your site, for I am an open-minded person. Being an ex-serviceman though, I find the antiwar protesters disturbing, and there acts as dangerous and counterproductive to getting them home safely and out of harms way. So if I seem reactionary, I hope you will forgive me.

I thank you for taking the time to answer me, and I assure you that I will take the time to better instruct myself concerning your website.

Unprepared

I entirely agree with you. The bombing is simply increasing the number of terrorists. The military bases abroad are the main cause of hate towards the USA. At home we are unprepared.

~ McRogue

Democrat for Paul

...As a former World War II U.S. Marine Corps machine gunner with 2 1/2 years combat in the Pacific against the Japanese, I agree with ...[Ron Paul's] well-written October 26th article ["US Armed Forces Should Protect American Soil"].

Also, as a lifelong voting Democrat I can understand Bush's (the pretender to the throne) position, because he never, according to internet articles, reported for duty as a reserve fly boy when his papa was president (in the Marines that is called desertion), but I am ashamed of the congressional Democrats, and the leaders Daschle and Gebhardt, for their lack of vision -- that you so eloquently expressed in your article.

~ Albert M.

Mujahedin Visas

Since 1993, the INS has issued an extremely high number of refugee visas, first to Bosnian Muslims and later to Albanians from Kosovo. I was somewhat involved with refugees from Bosnia and know that many of those refugees hadn't even lived in Bosnia during the war. I also know that many Albanian refugees were not citizens of Serbia-Kosovo. I am just wondering how many of those visas have been issued to mujahedin from different countries posing as Bosnian or Albanians.

It would be an interesting piece of investigative reporting to dig deeper into Bosnian and Albanian "refugees" and their connection to September 11.

~ Dusan J.

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