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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence
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To: joseph krinsky who wrote (9787)11/3/2001 10:38:34 PM
From: Bill Fischofer  Read Replies (3) of 27666
 
The U.S. has neither the desire nor the intention of committing genocide. Armageddon would represent a tragic failure on the part of civilization that would scar and haunt humanity forever. Recognizing that such horror is a possibility is not the same as rushing to embrace it. We could have "ended" the Cold War in the 1950s just as it was really getting started at the cost of making Hitler look like an amateur. We did not because that is not who we are or who we choose to be.

If it takes 50 years to diffuse terrorism in a manner that avoids slaughtering millions of innocents then so be it. I personally do not believe it will take anything approaching that length of time but to reduce the argument to one of "convenience" is unworthy of us.
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