Response to Comments
Note: Comments to my letter to the editor “How Will It All End?” and my response to them.
From: Linda Vice, Elkhorn, Neb.
“July 20 Pulse) [omitted] should talk to the victims of 9/11, the Madrid train bombings or the recent London bombings. There’s no such thing as peaceful coexistence with terrorists.
Maybe he would like to live in Baghdad and take his chances at a “peaceful” coexistence with suicide bombers. Terrorists hatred existed long before our military courageously rescued Afghanistan and the Iraqi people by helping them build better governments for themselves.”
From: Cecil Parker, Holdrege, Neb.
"If [omitted] truly believes that all we need to do to get along with radical Islam is to have good will and be peaceful, please contact me about a bridge I own in New York state. I am sure that Mr. [omitted] would be qualified buyer. Any religion that preaches hate and murder in its mosques and has the sworn goal of pushing all of Israel into the sea is not about to be appeased.
Islamic terrorists do not hate us for what we have done or not done. They hate us because we are here and free."
My response…
Recently, I was lambasted in the local newspaper letters to the editor “The Public Pulse.” To all of my critics, we can agree to disagree.
We must learn from past history of fighting and defeating your enemy. In WW II, we fought a war against Germany, Italy and Japan. In Vietnam, we had a war with the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese in South Vietnam. The differences and difficulties of those wars and terrorist insurgency in Iraq are that the former had a face and place of combat. The latter, the insurgents are ubiquitious. Terrorism is a war of fear. A terrorist is only one side of the same coin. Some define a terrorist as "one man terrorist is another man freedom fighter." Eventually, they've seen to fate into obivious, whereby, becoming the basic of the new govervence i.e., George Washington, Mao Tse-Tung, Fidel Castro, Nelson Mandela, Ho Chin Minh, etc, who were also called the fther of their country. My vision of the war on terror is; it will past into history like a bad storm and only its ruin left in its wake.
There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world and their resentment against the U.S. runs deep. Leaders from the West and East must bridge this gap. The conventional wisdom is: we are not winning the hearts and minds of the people in these encounters, thereby, losing the was on terror the term is now "globe struggle against violent extremism."
So my statement: “Islamic ideology and the Bush’s administration approach in dealing with it can not be fought or won militarily but by people of goodwill and peaceful mutual co-existence” is appropriate.
From: Linda Vice, Elkhorn, Neb.
“July 20 Pulse) [omitted] should talk to the victims of 9/11, the Madrid train bombings or the recent London bombings. There’s no such thing as peaceful coexistence with terrorists.
Maybe he would like to live in Baghdad and take his chances at a “peaceful” coexistence with suicide bombers. Terrorists hatred existed long before our military courageously rescued Afghanistan and the Iraqi people by helping them build better governments for themselves.”
From: Cecil Parker, Holdrege, Neb.
"If [omitted] truly believes that all we need to do to get along with radical Islam is to have good will and be peaceful, please contact me about a bridge I own in New York state. I am sure that Mr. [omitted] would be qualified buyer. Any religion that preaches hate and murder in its mosques and has the sworn goal of pushing all of Israel into the sea is not about to be appeased.
Islamic terrorists do not hate us for what we have done or not done. They hate us because we are here and free."
My response…
Recently, I was lambasted in the local newspaper letters to the editor “The Public Pulse.” To all of my critics, we can agree to disagree.
We must learn from past history of fighting and defeating your enemy. In WW II, we fought a war against Germany, Italy and Japan. In Vietnam, we had a war with the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese in South Vietnam. The differences and difficulties of those wars and terrorist insurgency in Iraq are that the former had a face and place of combat. The latter, the insurgents are ubiquitious. Terrorism is a war of fear. A terrorist is only one side of the same coin. Some define a terrorist as "one man terrorist is another man freedom fighter." Eventually, they've seen to fate into obivious, whereby, becoming the basic of the new govervence i.e., George Washington, Mao Tse-Tung, Fidel Castro, Nelson Mandela, Ho Chin Minh, etc, who were also called the fther of their country. My vision of the war on terror is; it will past into history like a bad storm and only its ruin left in its wake.
There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world and their resentment against the U.S. runs deep. Leaders from the West and East must bridge this gap. The conventional wisdom is: we are not winning the hearts and minds of the people in these encounters, thereby, losing the was on terror the term is now "globe struggle against violent extremism."
So my statement: “Islamic ideology and the Bush’s administration approach in dealing with it can not be fought or won militarily but by people of goodwill and peaceful mutual co-existence” is appropriate.
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