Sept. 11, 2001:
“Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. America was targeted for attack because we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining.” President George W. Bush
[Quote provided by The Indianapolis Star]
Oct. 7, 2001:
“Today we focus on Afghanistan, but the battle is broader. Every nation has a choice to make. In this conflict, there is no neutral ground. If any government sponsors the outlaws and killers of innocents, they have become outlaws and murderers themselves. And they will take that lonely path at their own peril.” President George W. Bush
[Quote provided by The Indianapolis Star]
April 4, 2002:
“Terror must be stopped. No nation can negotiate with terrorists, for there is no way to make peace with those whose only goal is death.” President George W. Bush
“The United States is on record supporting the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people for a Palestinian state.” President George W. Bush
[Quotes provided by CBS News]
In response to years of terrorist attacks against Israel and its people, President Bush has personally supported a “road map” with the intention of establishing a Palestinian state by 2005. This road map calls for numerous concessions on the part of Israel, and “promises” from the Palestinian government that they will increase their steps to stop terrorism. Terrorists attack America and kill roughly 3,000 people, and President Bush declares that there is no middle ground; any nation that harbors terrorists will be regarded as a hostile nation. Terrorists attack Israel for over 50 years and kill tens of thousands of people; President Bush declares that these terrorists have the right to their own state, at the expense of their victims. The failure to allow the Israeli army to completely eliminate the terrorist organizations of the Palestinians such as the PLO and Hamas and the failure to arrest and eliminate these organizations by the Palestinian leaders themselves qualifies as support of those organizations. By negotiating with the Palestinian leaders therefore, President Bush is negotiating with terrorists.
The moral hypocrisy of President Bush at this point is apparent. He has long since abandoned his pledge to eliminate terrorism by regarding any nation who harbors or supports terrorists as hostile. Instead, he has begun the process of appeasing terrorists, of negotiating with them, of bowing down to their terror. “Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. America was targeted for attack because we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining.” I beg to differ Mr. President. YOU have deviated from the principles of the foundation of America, YOU have dented the steel of American resolve, and YOU are steering America away from being the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world.
As Ayn Rand illustrated through the character of John Galt in her epic novel Atlas Shrugged, “There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle…who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who shoves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison,it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromiser is the transmitting rubber tube.”
Indeed, in this Israeli-Palestinian “conflict,” it is our President George W. Bush who is the transmitting rubber tube.
