I'll repeat the 3 words I first said on September 11 and have repeated many times since:
"This is different."
The Prince was attempting to rub our faces in it, and frankly if Rudy had told him to never come back to NYC again I would have been ok with it. It is time for people to recognize that the problem, at its core, is the implicit acceptance of tactics like what happened on Sept. 11.
I think our policy should be....every time you target us, we increase support for Israel by 10 percent. And we come after you besides. If the art of doing business is to make a deal after we are murdered, then the deal is not worth making, and the enemies are in exactly the right relationship to us.
What if, after Hitler sank one of our ships with a U Boat, some Swiss diplomat stood up in front of the victims and said, "Ah, but of course America should do something about the Jewish problem"??? Should we tell the Swiss diplomat privately and diplomatically that we really, really don't think that's appropriate?
I am well aware of Gandhi's saying, and it does not apply here. This is not an eye for an eye. It is having the courage to say that something is morally abhorrent, even if saying it might ruffle a few feathers. A courage, I might add, that Gandhi had more than almost anybody else. |
