Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Red Cell Re-examined

"No way, you say? here is what al Qaeda spokesman Suleiman Abu Gheith said in 2002:

"We have the right to kill 4 million Americans - 2 million of them children
- and to exile twice as many and wound and cripple hundreds of thousands.
Furthermore, it is our right to fight them with chemical and biological weapons,
so as to afflict them with the fatal maladies that have afflicted the Muslims
because of the [Americans'] chemical and biological weapons." "America knows
only the language of force. ... America is kept at bay by blood alone."

Last November The SF Examiner wondered whether Americans are sleepwalking into a gathering storm, much as the British did in the 1930s. If so, a lot of the blame rests squarely in the Oval Office, whose occupant is permitting it happen. Yet the stakes could not be graver. I wrote last November why I was a single-issue voter, kicking off with David High's observation, "If we don't get the war right, the Medicare prescription plan won't matter, Social Security won't matter, nothing else will matter." The threat is real, people, so watch "24" to see what our enemies want to do. It and like media will tell you; the administration won't."