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Posted September 15, 2001
Wild About Harry
Your words on the Dave Ross show were indeed welcome. I am not a member of the Libertarian Party and do not agree with some of their stands but on this issue of the despicable attack on the World Trade Center I believe you are right.
I have spoken with probably five or six good friends about this and they feel as you do and echoed your sentiments. I do not believe that searching for a way to prevent future attacks on innocent Americans by questioning our method of handling affairs overseas is unpatriotic or unfeeling. I believe that to look for the base causes of such diabolical action by one group against another is prevention and is truly the way to bring some semblance of stability to the world, and represents forward thinking. Denial is our true enemy. We must use a critical eye on our own house and weed our own garden if need be – this certainly does not mean we should not do what is necessary to track down the criminal elements responsilble for the unbelievable death and destruction visited on New York.
Further, I believe that once found – and they will be found – those responsible should be brought to justice in a "World Court" situation, akin to the Nuremburg trials where the Nazis were tried for crimes against HUMANITY – not just crimes against the United States, but against all humanity. And from here on ALL terrorists should be tried in front of the eyes of the entire world. The whole world will be watching. And then terrorism will be a crime against the human family, there will be no place to hide, and EVERY nation will then be held accountable by the world for any part it plays in terrorist activities.
I believe today you were Dave Ross's alter ego: Perhaps he would have liked to have said what you did but could not because KIRO would frown on that. I give him credit for having you on his show. You have spoken for many, many patriots – a patriot to me is someone who wants to see their country be truly great, to live up to its own high expectations and perceived standards. And while people can quibble over what the word "patriot" means or is, I repeat that you spoke for a lot of people today. Thanks for doing so.
~ Gene Derig
Albright's Response
[Regarding Justin Raimondo's column of September 11, "Terror – the Price of Hegemony":]
Congratulations to Justin Raimondo for his analysis of the the World Trade Center attack. I couldn't help but think of Madeleine Albright's response to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children from malnutrition from the embargo on Iraq – "It's worth it." (But conveniently the Iraqi children die off camera and un-dramatically)
Obviously someone felt the same way about sacrificing thousands of American lives. The chickens of the interventionists have come home to roost.
Almost Threw Up
I read an article by Alan Bock [dated September 12] titled ["The Price of Empire"] and almost threw-up. It is this kind of cowardly response that encourages terrorists. The only reason these people hate us is because of our support of Israel. They hate the Jews and the hate anyone that supports them. I'm sure that your solution would be to abandon Israel (and all of our other allies) to their enemies every time those enemies make threats against us.
If
Alan Bock and his hero, Chalmers
Johnson, are representative of your organizations
point of view, then I can only hope that you and these
two simpering cowards are at ground zero of the next terrorist
attack that will surely come if these barbarians see that
we are too gutless to respond to their aggression.
Alan Bock replies:
I presume Mr. Rhodes has already volunteered, along with Bill O'Reilly, Robert Maginnis, William Bennett, Mark Helprin, the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal and assorted other war whoopers, to join the volunteer Testosterone Brigade to go kick some terrorist butt. Actually, I fully expect the U.S. government to retaliate in some manner and see that some retaliation is justified and probably necessary, but I hope against hope that it can be done in a way that doesn't create more dedicated terrorists; our record to date is not encouraging.
If
Mr. Rhodes wants to discuss this mano a mano in any dark
alley he chooses, we'll see how he kicks butt personally.
I just wonder why it's a badge of courage to want to do
it with some other mother's son, with my tax money, in
the name of my country. How
advocating that makes somebody big and brave is beyond
me, and the notion that questioning it makes somebody
a coward is simply surreal. But it illustrates the point
that when the war drums start beating lots of people lose
their judgment.
Pro-Peace
Due to the events that took place this date [September 11], I found you through my search for news at Yahoo!. Although I disagree, philosophically, with "anti" anything, it would probably be unrealistic to name your organization "pro-peace."
The World Trade Center and Pentagon bombings are, in my view, the direct result of our international intervention, and the Pentagon blast, especially, was validation of "what goes around, comes around." My perception is that Bush will strike out at the nearest, most "logical" suspect(s) in a military manner, much like a police chief who will arrest "suspects" to take the heat off. Our investigation should be directed at the "why", in addition to the "who."
Keep up the good work.
Arabs
I
hope you're happy now. Your beloved Arabs show their true
colors for once in our own backyard. Perhaps we should
give them our land just like you insist Israel should
do.
Fools.
~ Ken M.
The "Backtalk" editor replies:
Antiwar.com has published numerous columns warning that the US government's policy of military interventionism would not remain painless for Americans – for instance Jon Basil Utley's guest column of August 16, "American Interventionism and the Terrorist Threat," which explicitly warned that bin Laden might attack the Pentagon.
Antiwar.com published these warnings because we hoped to change the US government's dangerous and immoral policies, not because we wanted the attacks to take place – and we're unhappy about being right. You're blaming the messenger for delivering a useful and accurate message.
Instead of criticizing Antiwar.com for alleged friendship with Arabs in general, perhaps you should agitate against CIA funding for terrorists, since the CIA funded Saudi Muslim extremists – the suspects in this attack.
When you write that "Arabs" have shown "their true colors" you're lumping together tens of millions of people from different countries, some of which are US allies.
Antiwar.com
does not insist that Israel give Arabs their land, we
advocate ending the US taxpayers' funding of Israel's
military (and Saudi Arabia's, and Turkey's, etc.).
Dogs of War
[Regarding Justin Raimondo's column, "Terror – the Price of Hegemony":]
Read your article today ... and I agree with your points.
However,
the time has come for America to remove the gloves and
let slip the dogs of war. Bush ought to nuke Palestine,
Afghanistan, Iraq and any other Arab state that gets in
our way. They all want to be martyrs so bad, let's accommodate
them.
~ Scott P., Iowa
The "Backtalk" editor replies:
The Palestinians, Afghanis, Iraqis and other Arabs don't "all want to be martyrs," though there may be hundreds or thousands of Muslims living in the Middle East, Europe, and North America, who are willing to be martyrs.
There's no evidence that an "Arab state" caused this attack.
Dropping
nuclear bombs would kill large numbers of civilians, something
Antiwar.com opposes (along with most of the world's moral
systems). It would also poison neighboring countries,
some of which are US allies, and some of which have nuclear
weapons of their own.
Banned for Life
[Regarding Justin Raimondo's column of September 11, "Terror – the Price of Hegemony":]
Brilliant writing and instantly! You put in words everything that I had been thinking and more. No wonder the Zionists and their useful idiots on Free Republic want the thread closed and the poster banned for life.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b9e5dcf12dd.htm:
Terror-The
Price of Hegemony
News/Current Events News
Source: Antiwar.com
Published: Sep. 11-2001 Author: Justin Raimondo
Posted on 09/11/2001 11:54:07 PDT by july4th1776"
Citizens
of the greatest nation on God's green earth, let us pray
for the families of those killed and maimed in this incident
as well as for those whom our foreign policy has wreaked
the same or worse havoc, ie. Serbia, Iraq. Pat Buchanan
warned about this sort of thing happening due to our NeoCon
globalist interventionist government policies which sow
the seeds of revenge. We are now reaping what we have
sown. I pray that this is not some Rooseveltian tripwire
to get us more involved in the war between Israelis and
Palestinians ala Pearl Harbor. Perhaps it's time to make
less enemies and roll back our Empire overstretch and
tend to the problems we face in our own Republic. May
God punish the perpetrators.
Citizen, Patriot <><
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To: july4th1776
Anyone who tries to exploit this tragedy to score political points or advance a particular political cause is anything but a patriot.
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Posted on 09/11/2001 11:56:36 PDT by Hugh Akston
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To: july4th1776
It's
a bad time to gloat.
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Posted on 09/11/2001 11:58:59 PDT by jlogajan
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To: Jim Robinson
Please ban these creeps posting this crap for life.
4 Posted on 09/11/2001 11:59:30 PDT by Travis McGee
What Liberals?
So,
what now, liberals? Are you against a military strike
at the heart of Islamic terrorism in Africa and the Middle
East? Are you still going to whine and complain about
your right to privacy when you are searched or scanned
at airports and other public places?
The
government has not failed the American people.
The American people, whose selfish, liberal views, have
hampered the ability of law enforcement in this country
to control and monitor the activities of terrorists in
on our soil. Because people can come and go between states
and internationally pretty much at will, and because we
are afraid to step on anyone's Constitutional toes when
trying to detect potential violence, the atmosphere is
ripe for terrorist attacks like the ones we suffered today.
The "Backtalk" editor replies:
("Liberals"?)
"The government has not failed the American people"?
The government funded Muslim terrorism in Central Asia and the Balkans (so that the Muslims would terrorize countries that never attacked the United States) – and now the United States has (apparently) become a victim of Muslim terrorist veterans of these campaigns. The government spent our money creating the most expensive intelligence agencies in the world and then allowed the world's most deadly terrorist attack to occur – supposedly masterminded by the world's most famous terrorist.
And where is this "heart of Islamic terrorism"? Apparently these terrorists were trained in Florida and are nationals of countries allied with the United States.