More Terrorism, not less, is necessary.

Date: 18th Sept '01

Name: Paul Boulton

The terrorist attack on the USA, with all that loss of innocent life, is the best political event to have occured since I know not when.

Despite the fact that the USAF shot down one of the four planes, nobody can deny the brilliance, daring and success of the whole operation: US citizens get a taste of death and destruction on a scale usually dished out by US forces; Wall St looks wobbly, about to crash, like a twin tower; looking like a startled rabbit, the President runs for his life.

This is a wake-up call to the Left. The events of September 11 clearly demonstrate that well planned and executed terrorism is the ONLY effective way to deal with Uncle Sam.

As a political weapon, terrorism is always a justified response to present American foreign policy.

First, when one cannot reason with the unreasonable, then any means of redress is allowable to realise a transendental end.
Secondly, political violence is intrinsically beneficial, regenerative, and cathartic. It gives hope to those seeking justice, and invigerates those who feel weak.

Moreover, sustained acts of terrorism always work in the long run. The PIRA has created the present peace accord situation in NI - not Blair, nor any loyalist.

Morally, an 'eye for an eye' has always been the basis of justice. But how bad do things have to get for the Palestinians before others will state that terrorism is the only justifiable reasoned response that they have left?

Violence is the language of American capitalism. As such, terrorism is the only weapon in the Left's amoury that is capable of making Uncle Sam understand that he cannot always get away with being the biggest bully on the block.

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