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Posted on 09/11/2001 11:13:41 AM PDT by fporretto

September 11, 2001

This morning America suffered the largest and most vicious blow in her history. That blow killed thousands of Americans, including several friends and acquaintances of mine, persons I held in high esteem. It was struck by faceless men who placed the value of their own lives below the destruction of innocents. It was planned and financed by faceless men for whom hatred is the supreme value in life.

But no, perhaps not, for the perpetrators are not men. Men recognize moral constraints. Men distinguish combatants from civilians. These are predators. My hope is that they will soon be ashes in the wind.

A time of reckoning is upon us. May it be swift, certain, and complete.

I was wrong. I had hoped that the mass killings of the Twentieth Century were things that would not be repeated in the Twenty-First. I had hoped that the extension of an olive branch to those who thought us their enemies would suffice to coax the Kalashnikovs from their hands. I had hoped that, at the least, America could disinvolve itself from the savage places, the lands where hatred is nurtured and watered with blood, its seeds inculcated in the young and force-grown like a hothouse plant.

Dear God, I was so wrong.

There is only one treatment for a disease this virulent: extermination. If there isn't any hoof-and-mouth disease, there won't be any. The prospect is horrifying. The necessity is clear. The time is upon us.

There can be no reconciliation with a people who cheer in the streets at the news of Americans dying as their office towers burn and collapse. There can be no peace with a foe for whom there's no such thing as a noncombatant. There can be no exculpation for anyone who looks to a murderer as his "leader," or who praises his son for dreaming of becoming a suicide bomber.

Once more it's time for America to show the world what to do with monsters.

In Texas and elsewhere in our Southwest, "he needed killin' " has long been considered an adequate defense against a charge of murder. There are people who need killin'. Let's not neglect them, we who have fed, clothed and protected the world for sixty years at such ruinous cost.

Since nine o'clock New York time this morning, America has been at war. The identity of the enemy is already partly known. Soon it will be fully known. I pray that the men who wield this country's instruments of retribution will wipe them completely from the face of the Earth. I pray they have the strength.

I pray also for the innocents who will die. They didn't all die this morning. There can be no peace with the Middle Eastern butchers, and there can be no peace with those who celebrate their unholy triumphs. We must slay them all and spare not. Else the poison will renew itself in another generation.

May they repent before we come for them. May God forgive them what they have done. It is not in my power to do so.

The giant has slept. He sleeps no longer. No fortress can long shelter those who smote him while he slumbered. He will root them from the bowels of the Earth if he must.

Let the foes of America tremble and flee. We are coming.

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