On Fri, 31 May 2002, Doug Henwood wrote:
> At 4:43 PM -0400 5/31/02, PROGRESSIVE REVIEW wrote:
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> >Patrick J. Buchanan, world net daily - The price of empire is terror. The
> >price of occupation is terror. The price of intervention is terror . . .
> >Before, not after, the next terror attack on this country, America's leaders
> >should start telling the truth: Evil though they may be, Islamic killers are
> >over here because we are over there. They are not trying to kill us because
> >they dislike our domestic politics, but because they detest our foreign
> >policy. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia. They did not fly
> >into those twin towers to protest universal suffrage or to advance
> >self-determination for the Palestinian people. As Osama bin Laden said, they
> >want us to stop propping up the Saudi regime they hate, and to get off the
> >sacred Saudi soil on which sit the holiest shrines of Islam. They want our
> >troops out of Saudi Arabia and if we don't get out, they are coming over
> >here to kill us any way they can. That is reality. Now while America should
> >use every weapon in her arsenal, from intelligence to diplomacy to war, to
> >prevent terror and to punish terror, we must address the central issue:
> >terror on American soil, and eventual cataclysmic and atomic terror on
> >American soil, is the price of American empire. Is the empire worth it?
> >French, Brits, even Soviets said no. They went home. And nothing over there
> >not oil, not bases in Saudi Arabia, not global hegemony is worth risking
> >nuclear terror over here. I may be the only right-winger in America who
> >loves D.C., but then I grew up here. Washington is my hometown. It comes
> >first, and empire isn't even a close second.
> >
> >http://worldnetdaily.com
>