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Way to go Brits for spoiling this heinous murderous and cowardly plot to bring down airliners on the way to America resulting in the potential deaths of hundreds, maybe thousands.(re: British police claim to foil massive terrorist plot
I say again: we are not going to wake up one morning and the war on terrorism be over. It is not going to end. Just not going to happen!!!!!!
Someone said to me not long ago, "There have to be reasonable people in the Middle East." Of course, there are reasonable people, but the fanatical terrorists don't listen to them. Just think about the acts of terrorism since it became a way of life in the world.
Because of 9-11, terrorism has become reality for people living in the United States. In Europe, they have been dealing with terrorism for a long time. For the Brits, and until the somewhat recent past, terrorism was centered almost entirely on the conflict in Northern Ireland and this conflict was almost typically British gentleman terrorism. Innocent civilians were never targeted; and, most of the time, there was some hint of what was to come: "we are going to blow up such and such, everybody get out." Innocent civilians did occasionally die, but by accident most of the time.
The ever present terrorist cowardly acts target innocent civilians for a variety of reasons: revenge, hatred of Israel, punishment of infidels. The terrorist views basically follow misguided religious views. Who knows the real reasons for their acts? Present day terrorism is rooted in uneducated and fanatical Muslim extremists. Who can deny it?
So, what can we do?
(AFP/USMC/Graham A. Paulsgrove)
| Here are a few thoughts. Accept that terrorism is not going away. Prepare as best we can and then simply go on with our lives. After 9-11, we knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that it would change us forever, and consequently, all those connected to us.
The one group that terrorism was probably going to change more than any other were those of Middle Eastern heritage-Arabs who were Arab Americans, ex-pats from Iran, anybody in the country from the Middle East. Think about it, up until 9-11, the United States was about as open as it could be. Students from the Mideast flocked here for school, work, whatever. No more.
The suspicion attached to Arab Americans is real and it is not going to go away. When we get on a plane, walk the streets, take a cab, we might say that we don't look or get asked if we think we see people of "Middle Eastern" descent, but we lie. There are no easy answers, no answers. We have a pretty sorry history with our own suspicions and acts. We have done some terrible things to African Americans for which we still hang our heads; Japanese were sinking merchant ships off the California coast and we imprisoned innocent Japanese living in America. We were scared. Understandably, but we regret that we did it.
Terrorism is a situation that we are trying to figure out. We have not reduced terrorism by Iraq or Afghanistan and have probably increased it. So, again, what can we do?
The most recent potential act was planned by homegrown Brits with parents and relatives that immigrated from Pakistan. What do the Brits do about it? Are we to believe that parents, relatives, friends knew nothing about the plot? I doubt it.
(AFP/Patrick Baz)
| Here's a possible drastic solution and controversial one which probably will not fly. But, in a situation like we're in, to continue on with no new courses of action is not the answer either. I first got this idea from one of my heroes, Jack Bauer, from the TV show, 24. In one case, Jack caught the terrorist and needed him to give up the whereabouts of the bomb or whatever, but the terrorist refused. Jack finally created a scam where he made it appear that he was going to do harm to the terrorist's child and guess what? The terrorist gave it up. He was willing to die for his misguided cause, but was not willing for his family to suffer the same fate.
Well, we are not going to do a "Jack Bauer." However, we are confronted with an impossible world scenario. We know that the line for suicide bomber candidates is endless. With a look to martyrdom and scores of virgins, they are ready to claim the prize. Their own death or life for that matter, means nothing as compared to their ignorant belief. So, what do we do? We involve their families. We have to say to the terrorist, "when you do this or we catch you, your family is deported; citizenship is revoked, your family is on a plane to Pakistan tomorrow. And, you are the blame for this, but you have made the choice."
Are my ideas drastic? Are they feasible, Will they work? Well, who knows, but what we are doing now is not working, let's think outside the box.
As my bud, Kinky Friedman, running for the governor of Texas says," May the God of your choice bless and keep you." kt
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| Judge Don Stephenson Presents 101st Membership Card
 Judge Don Stephenson(pictured far right) presents the prestigious 101st Airborne Division Association membership card, appropriately numbered, 101, to the Don F. Pratt Museum at Fort Campbell Kentucky.
The card belonged to General William C. Lee, subject of the recently published biography,
General William C. Lee, Father of the American Airborne. The card was discovered in the personal papers of General Lee and was thought to exist but had been lost for years.
Thank you, Judge Stephenson, for all your effort in promoting General William C. Lee's legacy.
MG.(Major General) Lee truly built this Division (101st Airborne) from the ground up, and led it to the eve of Normandy when fate and a heart attack put him down. Having researched him extensively, I can truly say the success of the Division was not his successor's leadership but from the outstanding, sharp instrument that he was handed by MG Lee.
1SG John E. Foley,
Don F. Pratt Memorial Museum;
Fort Campbell, Kentucky
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