Attacks in US

[fourfuries at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 26058

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:
> Still in shock.  I'm very frightened.  I'm afraid for the human 
race, afraid that that there will be a war, afraid of the 
implications for air travel security, afraid of a monstrous backlash 
against Islam and anyone who looks even slightly Arabic.  I'm afraid 
that this may only be the first of a series of hideous attacks, and 
that something like this may happen again.  I hope everything is OK.  
My thoughts are with you.
> 
> Tabouli.

Everything is not OK, but it will be.  There is nothing to fear that 
was not present and available to be feared last week, last month or 
last year.  Now we face the reality that we must FIGHT to keep our 
FREEDOMS.

One of the founding patriots of this country once wrote that "every 
generation the streets must run with the blood of tyrants and 
patriots".  After nearly 30 years off, we are now getting our crack 
at the eternal challenge of freedom, which is, as our dear character 
has said in other context, Constant Vigilance.

The good news is that the same creative source that allowed the 
terrorists to come up with and execute their brilliant and dastardly 
plan is available to us, the people of good will, to use in our 
deense, and in defense of the freedoms we cherish.  But we can't be 
squemish.  We have to strike back.  We will be rounding up the "old 
crowd" and we will be going to battle, on land sea air and net.  And 
we will be successful, though some will pay the "full measure of 
devotion", laying down their sacred lives that others, even strangers 
may live.

The stuff of creation is more and better and greater than the stuff 
of destruction.  Ask the astrophysicists.  Matter outlasts the pull 
of anti-matter.  It is therefore part of the human miracle that good 
is actually superior to evil.  Looks like we will have to prove it 
yet again.

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