Strong words from Tony Blair:
Below are some excerpts of his speech yesterday before the Labor Party conference, which unmasks the
evil of terrorism in clear and unambiguous terms.
"Be in no doubt: Bin Laden and his people organized this atrocity. He will not desist from further acts of terror. Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.
So what do we do? Don't overreact some say. We aren't. We haven't lashed out. No missiles on the first night just for effect. Don't kill innocent people. We are not the ones who waged war on the innocent. We seek the guilty. Understand the causes of terror. Yes, we should try, but let there
be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events of 11 September, and it is to turn justice on its head to pretend it could.
But understand what we are dealing with. Listen to the calls of those passengers on the planes. Think of the children on them, told they were going to die. Think of the cruelty beyond our comprehension as amongst the screams and the anguish of the innocent, those hijackers drove at full throttle planes laden with fuel into buildings where tens of thousands worked. They have no moral inhibition on the slaughter of the innocent. 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, no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror.
Just a choice: defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must." |
