...When All is Said and Dunn

From the bowels of hell it came, or as we here in America like to refer to it, Afghanistan. A fiendish plot to kill innocent Americans, disrupt the American way of life, and upset the balance of the American and World economy. For reasons that would boggle any sane person’s mind, they stabbed at what they perceived to be the heart of America’s financial body, The World Trade Center.

If I read the Koran and studied the teachings of the terrorists that carried out this senseless crime, I will never be able to understand it in a million years. This vile scum is just one small cell of Muslim fundamentalists who feed off of hatred. Which is completely contradictory to the religion they profess to follow.

While they have been successful in their short-term goals, they have failed seriously in their attempts to break the American Spirit. The exact opposite has happened. Americans have, for the first time since World War II, puffed up its collective chest and are shouting out its pride from every town and city across the nation.

Even with all the negatives that have happened as the result of their despicable act, they have actually accomplished something that politicians, pop stars, and religious leaders have never been able to do: Bring everybody together and agree on at least one thing. In this case it is our mutual hate of terrorists and the countries that support them.

American flags are being displayed, flown, and worn with passion. The hottest commodity in every store is the American flag which are flying off the shelves as soon as they arrive. Everyone who cares about this country wants to show their support and love of their homeland, no matter if they are here via multi- generations or if they just passed their citizenship test.

We all are part of the same club, Club America, and we want everyone to know it.

It doesn’t require much to be a part of the Club, just a love of America and a hatred of any and all that would want to harm it. And in the current climate of this Club, it doesn’t hurt to have Osama Bin Laden as the center of your dartboard.

It really doesn’t matter if Osama Bin Laden is responsible for this latest act of terrorism or not, he must be disposed of immediately just on general principles. To be honest, at this point he is nothing more than a distraction, he is nothing more than a pimple on the ass of mankind and his removal is just the first step in clearing its complexion.

Even when we have reduced him to dust the seeds that he has planted live on. It’s the idea, not the man, and it is the idea that must be crushed by this war. The less we talk and focus on the man the more effective our campaign will be against the movement.

President Bush reminiscing about the “Wanted Posters” of the old West and saying he wanted Bin Laden “Dead or Alive” appeals to my sense of justice. I just don’t want this guy to become more of a role model/martyr than he already is to his bands of slimy followers. I would be happy if he and all the terrorists we find are brought back in sandwich size zip lock bags and flushed down the nearest toilet.

Which brings us to the proposed attack on the terrorists in Afghanistan and the related countries who aid and support these fanatical terrorists. There are many scenarios as to how we will go about exorcising theses demons from where they hide. Because unlike any of our past foes, like Japan for instance, they attack and then their army hides. Despite their training, they aren’t soldiers--they are cowards and criminals; they use their own women and children as shields. Just ask the last people who attempted to fight the Taliban Regime in Afghanistan, the Russian army. They fought these lunatics for 10 years and lost 15,000 men before finally pulling out.

By the time you read this article, George W. will have addressed the Congress and American people to outline his plans for the attack and our nation. I certainly hope he doesn’t send in many ground troops and sticks primarily to an air assault.

Anyone who has ever looked at a map of Afghanistan knows that this is not going to be an easy task. So why even bother sending in troops, why not just dust off some of those nuclear warheads we keep and turn the entire country into a parking lot? Why risk any more American lives when they have taken so many already?

Then in a decade or so, after the radiation subsides, put in a new World Trade Center, Disneyland, Six Flags, McDonalds, Burger King, a few upscale restaurants and resorts. We can make it a vacation stop for Club America, and a reminder not to mess with the U.S.A.