I am not sure there is a response strong enough to deal with immoral animals who today brutally murdered another innocent victim. It is tempting to say that we should turn the Middle East into one vast above ground nuclear weapons testing facility, but that would only be throwing out the baby with the bath water. But it is time for the Bush administration to take off the election year gloves and treble our efforts. Damn the cost, and damn the whiners on the left. Double the anti-terrorism budgets of the FBI and the CIA and tear down any last remnants of the Reno/Goerlick wall between the two agencies. Pull out troops out of Europe and re-task them to the War on Terror.

The United States and its allies should put the world on notice that we are taking the fight to the terrorists, wherever they are. Borders and boundaries mean nothing to terrorists and they should mean nothing to us. If we know there are terrorists in a given country, we are going after them and we will eliminate anyone who stands in the way.

This we should do in the name of Daniel Pearl, of Nicholas Berg, of Paul Johnson, and of "Kim Sun-il.

This we should do in the name of every decent life respecting freedom loving individual on the planet.

And if the current administration is not willing to do what it takes to fight terrorism, if they are not willing to see our enemy as one without boundaries of either nationality or humanity, then we might as well all vote for Kerry and get it over with.

UPDATE: I am not alone in wondering when Bush will actually do something.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 08:44 AM | No Comments | Add Comment