Terrorists Termites

The World Trade Center wasn't the first incident, nor the last, but it did inspire these words:

"We continue to pursue the terrorists in cities and camps and caves across the earth. We are joined by a great coalition of nations to rid the world of terror. And we will not allow any terrorist or tyrant to threaten civilization with weapons of mass murder. Now and in the future, Americans will live as free people, not in fear, and never at the mercy of any foreign plot or power.

"We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power.

"We will not relent until justice is done and our nation is secure. What our enemies have begun, we will finish." --President George W. Bush, 09-11-2002.

The USA, in good conscience and without hypocrisy, cannot ask that Israel do otherwise.

The Roadmap for Peace is a noble goal, but Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and the other Palestinian terrorists organizations and those that support them and celebrate their actions are not just roadblocks on that road, they are landmines in a desert. They have to be cleared before the road can even be built.

The world may wish for peace in the Middle East. So what? The Palestinian terrortists wish for the complete destruction of Israel.

Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a hard-line Hamas leader, said Saturday his Islamic militant group would not halt its attacks against Israel.

"The word cease-fire is not in our dictionary, Resistance will continue until we uproot them from our home land."

Terrorists are like termites. You can't negotiate with termites. You can talk all you want, but all the while, they just keep chewing, chewing, chewing. Why? Because while your goal is to protect your house, the termites' goal is to consume it. You can't talk to termites, and if it is your house they are eating, you can't ignore them either. You have to exterminate them. Israel seems to understand this. After 9-11, I thought we had figured it out as well.