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Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War!
What now?
By
Joseph Farah
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"But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I
will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries."
– Exodus 23:22
© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
The day after the Pearl Harbor attack, hundreds of thousands of young
American men responded to a call from President Roosevelt to rally against an
enemy that attacked the United States.
While that enemy had a clear address – Japan, the enemy in 2001 is a little
more ambiguous, a little more doubtful, a little more vague.
Yet, make no mistake about it, there is an enemy out there – a very real and
dangerous enemy that can strike the vulnerable United States at will in ways
few Americans have ever imagined.
President Bush needs to rally Americans to fight that enemy today – fight
them on the land, in the air and on the sea, as Winston Churchill once
pledged. We need to fight them in the fields, fight them in the streets.
This is war, America. I know you haven't seen it for a long time. I know many
Americans never thought it would happen again. I know this generation has
grown complacent, thinking their lives would never really change or be
disrupted like this.
And Bush needs to put this in perspective. He needs to pull people together,
help them set their priorities, get them on a war-footing, prepare them for
combat – physical and spiritual combat.
That's a tall order for a man not known for his inspiring rhetoric. Pray he
rises to the occasion.
Here's what Bush should rally us to do as a nation:
Build a missile-defense system as quickly as possible – no matter what the
cost, no matter what the sacrifice. Maybe now people will understand the
threats they face in a hostile world.
Cut off all foreign aid to Yasser Arafat and his Palestine Authority, which,
despite their attempt to distance themselves from these attacks, bears at
least some responsibility.
Take the handcuffs off Ariel Sharon and Israel to respond appropriately to
the terror attacks the Jewish state has endured for the last year.
Achieve energy independence by beginning an aggressive domestic oil-drilling
effort in Alaska and elsewhere, removing all misguided environmental barriers
to this national security necessity.
Repeal all restrictive gun laws so that every law-abiding American can take
part in national defense against this elusive enemy who can strike anywhere,
anytime.
Require every airliner in America to include armed guards on board, require
all crews to be armed and to allow properly permitted passengers to bring
firearms on board as well. Think of the lives that might have been saved if
any one of those four airliners was carrying some appropriately armed crew
members or passengers.
Drop all plans for relaxing controls at our borders and step up rigorous
enforcement of our immigration laws. Amnesty? Forget about it.
Call for a national day of prayer – just as our Founding Fathers would have
done in a time of national emergency.
This is unconventional warfare and it needs to be fought in unconventional
ways – enlisting ordinary Americans in the cause.
It should not be fought with unnecessary restrictions on the lives of
Americans, with infringements of our civil rights and with an abrogation of
the U.S. Constitution.
It's time to teach Americans to be self-reliant again. It's time to recognize
that government can't protect you, can't take care of you, can't save you
from attacks. The best it can do is respond. Only a free people can truly
defend themselves. Police-state tactics will only serve the purposes of the
enemy.
What Bush should not do is retaliate impotently at targets that are not truly
meaningful, not tied directly to the perpetrators, not really the enemy's
vulnerable spots.
Retaliation is not only appropriate, it is a necessity. But the retaliation
has to hurt those responsible. The enemy needs to pay in blood and pain and
real cost. The blows should be devastating and overwhelming – not just
matching the devastation here in the United States, but compounding it
exponentially.
Most of all, what America needs to do is repent of its sin. It needs to
recognize the way it has strayed from the ways of God. It needs to understand
that it is not immortal, not invincible, not impregnable. It needs to believe
that government is not its master, only its servant. It needs to comprehend
that God is sovereign, He is in control and only when we turn to Him will we
be safe, secure and steadfast.
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