by Robert W Tracinski | Sep 15, 2001 | POLITICS
Everyone acknowledges that Tuesday’s terrorist attacks on New York and Washington were acts of war. But, liberal commentators have been quick to object, we do not know whom to attack, how to attack, or how to escape a so-called “cycle of violence.”...
by Kim Holmes and Jack Spencer | Sep 15, 2001 | POLITICS
To get a good idea of how the United States should respond to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, consider what happened to the terrorists who bombed the U.S.S. Cole as it lay in port last October in the Middle East country of Yemen. Nothing. A...
by Thomas Sowell | Sep 14, 2001 | POLITICS
While the casualties in the terrorist attacks are expected to run into the tens of thousands, in a larger sense the casualties run into the millions because we are all affected now and will be as long as we live. People from all over the country have kept the phone...
by Michelle Malkin | Sep 14, 2001 | POLITICS
Why on earth have we been giving tens of millions of dollars in foreign aid to an unrepentant state sponsor of terrorism that continues to harbor one of our worst enemies? The facts: Osama bin Laden has long been one of America’s most wanted fugitives from...
by Thomas Sowell | Sep 13, 2001 | POLITICS
Pearl Harbor is the only thing in this century that can compare to the terrorist catastrophe that has struck the United States. With all its shock and tragedy, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ended our naive innocence about the dangerous world we live in and...
by Charles Josh | Sep 13, 2001 | POLITICS, Terrorism
The worst mistake that the United States could now commit is an insufficient retaliation against the Islamic terrorist world. This is a real concern because Americans have a sorry history of failing to commit to the destruction of our enemies. Indeed thousands of...
by Adam Mossoff | Sep 13, 2001 | Terrorism
On December 7, 1941, America was the target of an unprovoked, unmitigated and unjustified attack that left thousands dead and many more wounded. Americans understood the meaning of this day of infamy and responded appropriately–the sleeping giant was awakened....
by Don Feder | Sep 12, 2001 | POLITICS
On Dec. 7, 1941, Winston Churchill called President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. “What’s all this about Pearl Harbor?” the prime minister asked. “It’s quite true, they bombed us,” FDR replied. “We’re all in the same boat...
by Roger Simon | Sep 12, 2001 | POLITICS, Terrorism
In the past, the United States has always tried to be “proportional” in its response to terrorism. A terrorist group blows up a U.S. embassy somewhere, and we make a measured response: We blow up a terrorist training base or we hit a bomb factory. And...