A conviction so callous that it can encompass the hate from which it was originally created. Do not get me wrong, I wish not credit nationhood to those fanatics who attempted to destroy the United States on the morning of the Eleventh. But any collection of the fundamentally disenfranchised in distant regions of the world or here domestically have to be at least recognized and in some cases respected. We have endured turmoil here in our own back yard for centuries and a blind eye have allowed these operatives to persist. We should now begin to cleanse our system of them as well.
Terrorism is Terrorism.
It can be labeled by an acronym of PLO or KKK, but is still the same animal. It has severely hindered the pursuit to curb negative actions and attempts committed abroad. This is where I feel we have faltered. We cannot conduct a war abroad, when we have not completely secured our own backyard. Thus the saying, do as we say not as we do just might be an applicable relation to our problems after all.