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If there is one thing that this disaster brings home to us, it is the need for swift and decisive action against our enemies to ensure that this travesty never occurs again. I, along with 94% of fellow Americans, feel that we need to strike, and strike hard, in order to punish the guilty. But who is the guilty? Is it the Palestinians, eager to avenge American support for Israel? Is it Iraq, still bitter over the Gulf War and led by a madman that has already supported the attacks? Or is it Osama Bin Laden, the notorious terrorist who has already struck once against the World Trade Center? How can we tell? Where are the facts? Well I've got one thing to say - the facts don't matter. |
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The events of September the 11th 2001 are quite simply the most outrageous attack upon our great nation in history, and our President is entirely correct in proclaiming it as an act of war. And like in any war, we need to strike back at the enemy in order to defeat them. If we make no such move, it is obvious to even the least intelligent observer that this will only encourage further strikes. You don't stop a bully by submitting to his threats. Liberals across the country are clamoring for "time to reflect" before we launch our retaliation. But this is just another ploy to weaken us, to force us to submit to the will of one-world one-government bodies such as the UN rather than deal with our own problems as every mature adult would. The Liberals are claiming that we cannot attack, because we do not know the facts yet, and a decision of this magnitude must be firmly based on facts. They are wrong. Facts are great for trivial matters, for games of logic and wit, but when it comes to matters that are this weighty we simply cannot afford to sit around and wait for the propellerheads to "gather information", "generate hypotheses" and engage in mental masturbation over who has the biggest theory. If we waited for the "experts" to come to a consensus, then we would have lost the opportunity to act; as with pets, punishment must swiftly follow a transgression or else the causal link is forgotten. No, it is our instincts and intuition that must be bought into play here. Throughout history man has relied on their gut feelings when acting, not hordes of ivory tower academics. Can you imagine that Alexander, Hannibal or Sun Tzu chose their plans on the advice of others? No! They felt, and they acted, and they became the best commanders in history, remembered today for their skills in evaluating situations and coming to instantaneous decisions. Even mathematics, that most supposedly logical and fact-based of systems supports human instinct over the rule of facts. Through the technique of inspection, mathematicians follow their instincts, not relying on any rules to come to the answers they want to. What facts alone could not gain them, sheer insight can, and this is the hallmark of every great mathematician. Quite simply, we need to act, and act now. To waste time with matters of fact is pointless; we know who the culprits are, and we know what it is we must do. Any less is purely and simply un-American, and I pray that our President knows what it is he has to do.
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