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Re: A Letter from an Afghani-American attorneyPosted by Robert on September 18, 2001 at 14:56:23: In reply to: A Letter from an Afghani-American attorney posted by Kree on September 17, 2001 at 19:33:12: Pakistan has already agreed to all requests from USA includingletting the USA launch attacks from Pakistani soil. This guy is out of touch. Even Iran – through representatives of the Canadian Government – have indicated they will not oppose any targeted strikes against the cowards who tried to bring terror to democracy. I agree with KIM. We must catch punish these cowardly terrorists. This is a war: a war against freedom and democracy. This freedom lets you apply henna without persecution. It allows people to opine without persecution, even when they say, and wrongly so, that America is partly to blame. United States and her allies must fight, not grudgingly or slowfootedly, as if to signal mercy to the terrorists, but forthrightly, holeheartedly, conspicuously. It is a war. Innocent people will be harmed like they were in New York. If we do not confront that possibility now, we will have to endure far worse later. It is bombs and knives today; it will be anthrax and nuclear warheads tomorrow. That is the stark choice in front of us. We must stand strong together. We must say to these to cowardly terrorists that we are not afraid. The men who destroyed the World Trade Center are not moved by mere hatred of Israel, or even the United States: It is Western civilization they hate, in all its forms, with all its values. The only way we could escape their wrath would be by abandoning those values, engaging in ever more craven acts of appeasement, until at last there was nothing left of us but self- loathing. No. We must fight this war against terrorist no matter whose soil we are on. Our rags all dry under the same sun. And we shall fight together, each democratic nation, side by side, any where under that same sun to save democracy and are rights to live without fear of persecution.
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