Coercing terrorists beats dead Americans

The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel ^ | February 2, 2010 | Richard Masella

[2ndDivisionVet]

Wise leaders heed history's lessons. Interestingly, a Cuban operation again provokes U.S. presidential timidity. President Kennedy's Bay of Pigs flop caused Soviet boss Nikita Khrushchev to perceive him as someone who could be bullied. Introduction of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba quickly followed.

President Obama justifies closing the Guantanamo prison because it "serves as a recruiting tool for al-Qaida, and will remove the motivation for joining" the maniacal group. The United States "will be safer as a nation."

A corollary action grants terrorists the legal rights of American citizens. All is to heal America's purported worldly "black eye," caused by "inexcusable" acts of physical and psychological coercion on captives.

History proves President Obama terribly wrong. Radical Islam, like Nazi Germany and Soviet Bolshevism, is an ideological movement inherently and immovably hostile to America. Mass murderers are not swayed by concessions but emboldened, seeing weakness to be exploited. The self-delusion was known as "appeasement."

The first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, Osama bin Laden's declaration of war on America in 1998, deadly attacks on the USS Cole and African embassies and the 9-11 atrocity came long before the existence of U.S. terrorist prisons. The president wants us to forget these unpleasant facts.

Terrorist policy that minimizes information flow instead begs disaster. Radical Islam now kills hundreds and thousands, but wishes to kill millions.(continued)

[2ndDivisionVet]

Hear, hear!

[loveliberty2]

Would urge readers of this to view Lt. Col. Allen West's response to a Marine question to a panel recently. It can be found here

[himno hero]

Allowing Iran and their continued research and accumulation of others technology will only place the weapons in the terrorists hands. The longer America waits the greater its future losses.

[Torquay]

AMERICANS UNANIMOUSLY VOTED RECENTLY AND PREFER OVERWHELMINGLY... KILLING TERRORISTS BEATS COERCING AMERICANS!!!

[Cindy]

SNIPPET - QUOTE from post no. 1:

Radical Islam, like Nazi Germany and Soviet Bolshevism, is an ideological movement inherently and immovably hostile to America. Mass murderers are not swayed by concessions but emboldened, seeing weakness to be exploited. The self-delusion was known as "appeasement."