An Eye for an Eye...

I have followed the trial of convicted terrorists Zacarias Moussaoui since the initial opening arguments, I, as many other Americans feel sentencing this poor excuse for a human, and general piece of trash to supermax is not the way in which to put a dent into the growing terrorist problem.

Removing his personal liberties and confining him to solitary imprisonment sends a message of tolerance to the terrorist community instead of a message of an eye for an eye. That is not going to combat the growing problem of terrorism in any way shape or fashion. We must remember that we are not dealing with a rational way of thinking in this instance; we are not dealing with the normal manner in which reasonable and prudent people operate. The only manner in which to combat terrorism is through the use of deadly force. That and only that will put a dent into the problem, not sentencing the man to prison.

We Americans tend to look at life in a very different perspective then those in other countries, we see the rainbows and the good in people, we feel we can solve all the worlds woes by taking them into our hearts and embracing their cultures and history. That is a load of pure and simple bovine excrement too, for the only thing that manner of new age, “let’s help the world” thinking will lead to is another terrorist launching a shoulder fired rocket at anything they can get a lock on.

We need to radically alter our way of fighting terrorism, the arrest; detainment and any subsequent trial and punishment that may follow will simply not work. The only process that will work is the total use of deadly force and until we wake up to that fact, we will remain the targets that we have been.