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opinion
Attacks necessary
response to terror
In absolute sincerity,
the Chef is normally a very peaceful guy.
But our nation's leaders simply have no other choice when it
comes to the unleashing of wave after wave of cruiser missiles
on Taliban regime sites in Afghanistan.
The Chef is the furthest thing from belligerent and, as a matter
of fact, discourages any form of violence, but I fully understand
that American and British forces had no other option besides
bombing Taliban installations.
If the U.S. military did not act so swiftly with the attacks,
American soil would have doubtlessly become an open-season hunting
ground for more terrorists.
The retaliation by the U.S. military on the Taliban fortifications
sends a very clear message to terrorists - the United States
will defend its people and will seek retribution for the innocent
civilians who perished during the attacks on the East Coast.
Forty U.S. and British warplanes and battleships launched a
flurry of missiles to strategic Taliban locations Sunday evening,
an Associated Press report stated.
Despite the destruction of many of the military targets in Afghanistan,
Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the Sept. 11
attacks, released a taped broadcast wherein he said "neither
America nor the people who live in it we dream of security before
we live in Palestine," according to a Boston Globe report.
After hearing the adamant call to arms and threats of future
acts of terrorism by bin Laden, no American who has a smallest
trace of patriotism in his or her blood can denounce or even
refute the decision to continue the onslaught against Afghan
targets.
"There can be no peace in a world of sudden terror,"
said President Bush during his national television address.
"In the face of today's new threat, the only way to pursue
peace is to pursue those who threaten it."
Even the most passive individual must agree that terrorism is
an extreme case where fire must be fought with fire. There is
no alternative in this case - terrorism and its perpetrators
have to be pummeled by the relentless counterstrikes the United
States have been employing thus far.
U.S. jets struck the stronghold of the Taliban militia in southern
Kandahar Monday, in the first daytime bombing of Afghanistan
since the raids began, a New York Times report stated.
Hopefully, these air strikes will deter future heinous acts
against American civilians.
The current situation of the United States, or the entire civilized
world in this regard, has transgressed far beyond the resolving
reach of diplomacy.
Although the Chef may very well be the personification of peace,
make no mistake about it, counterattacks are the only answer.
Ben Dimapindan is a journalism major at Cal State Long Beach.
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