Terrorists Have Won

December 31, 2003

After reading a New York Post on-line opinion piece called "Tough Times for Terrorists" by Ralph Peters it is apparent the Terrorists have indeed won. Mr. Peters made sense in most of the article. He said the U.S. War on Terror had been very good to America and other countries. Our power and presence in the Middle East have convinced many to be more cooperative and terrorists to tremble or at least think twice before challenging the U.S. On this, he is right.

However, the last words of his piece indicate a view more in-line with a terrorist mind set and show we may in deed be loosing the War on Terror here at home. This is what he wrote:

"The terrorists will seek to convince American voters that the War on Terror is failing, paving the way for the electoral victory of a weakling and allowing them to surge back into vacuums created by an American retreat.

Their last, desperate hope will be to hit us so hard that we elect a coward in place of a hero. "

He is clearly equating anyone who challenges Bush for the White House as a terrorist. He believes anyone who upsets the current political status quo is bad or under the influence of terrorists.

He does not believe in democracy and neither do terrorists from the Middle East.

Anyone who calls a participant of the democratic process a terrorist is a terrorist. We do not need domestic terrorists like Ralph Peters. He represents what is wrong with America. He shows a side that wants to stop public discourse, political participation and punish those who believe in freedom to choose their leaders.

People like him have insidiously infected the country with their narrow minded and fascist views.

The American People are not terrorists or influenced by terrorists as Peters suggests. If that were so, the Terrorists Have Won.

Maybe they have, because most Neocons believe as he does and they are in power at the White House and in Congress.

His article can be viewed at: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/14815.htm