Friday, April 20, 2007

Give peace a chance? How long are we supposed to wait?

I’ve heard many say that peace can only be fostered by offering peace; that there is no way we could gain peace by war in the Middle East. We should let them work out their problems in a peaceful manner and they’ll stop hating us …

Really? So … what, our turning blind eyes to numerous attacks against American embassies around the world wasn’t enough? Should we have offered to bring terrorists to America and set them up in lush hotels, give them suburban homes and SUVs? Would that have helped them see that America isn’t really decadent? Let them relax along our shorelines with women wearing practically nothing so that we don’t offend their beliefs?

Oh, that’s right. We should send our young children overseas so that their bloodlust is sated by their raising them as future terrorists. Of course, Americans would be too generous, at that point, for them to hate us more.

I say, for those of you who think that peace cannot be gained without shedding blood, that you should go live with them, offer your lives as slaves, and see if they still don’t seek your life. There is nothing that can sate the bloodlust of a thirsty radical. Only the destruction of anything that considers itself equal or above them will make them remotely satisfied with their own pathetic lives.

Johnathan Cross
Marietta

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