Blair: Defeat Terrorism or be Defeated by It
With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
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Tuesday Oct. 2, 2001; 10:20 a.m. EDT
Blair: Defeat Terrorism or be Defeated by It
Three weeks to the day after terrorists hijacked three commercial
jets and slammed them into the World Trade Center and Pentagon,
British Prime Minister Tony Blair proclaimed that the world now
faces a stark choice: Defeat terrorism or be defeated by it.
"Think of the (terrorists') cruelty beyond our comprehension,"
Blair told a Labour Party conference in London. "That amongst the
screams and anguish of the innocent, those hijackers drove at
full throttle planes laden with fuel into buildings where tens of
thousands of people work."
"If they could have murdered, not 7,000, but 70,000, does anyone
doubt they would have done so and rejoiced in it?"
"There is no compromise possible with such people.... Just a
choice: defeat (terrorism) or be defeated by it. And defeat it,
we must!," Blair said to rousing applause.
Blair warned Afghanistan's Taliban government, now sheltering
Twin Tower terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, "Surrender the
terrorists or surrender power -- that is your choice."
The British prime minister also counseled that the West must not
lose its resolve in the face of the terrorist threat.
"Whatever the dangers of the actions we take, the dangers of
inaction are far, far greater," he said.
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