The War on TerrorSince the beginning of time, this earth has been plagued by war. How many wars has the earth seen? No one can answer that question. I am completely confident that no nation, country, or region can claim to have seen no war. The United States, my beloved home and country, is certainly no different. Today we are engaged in one of the greatest and most psychologically assaulting wars man has ever known, the "War on Terrorism". But before we can look at the "War on Terrorism", let's define what exactly terrorism is. The dictionary defines terrorism as political violence: violence or the threat of violence, especially bombing, kidnapping, and assassination, carried out for political purposes (Microsoft Works Word Processor Dictionary). This political violence has been waged upon us in full.
Events leading up to the war began sometime ago, but the "War on Terrorism" really began to escalate in 2001, when a series of coordinated attacks was launched against the United States in several locations.
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Ships assigned to Combined Task Force One Five Zer...Those attacks have hurt our country badly, but the greatest pain lies not in thousands of deaths or in financial loss but in the loss of peace of mind. For that is what the dictionary tells us that terror is; the act of scaring someone into doing something. You might ask, what should we be scared into doing? My best guess is that they are trying to scare us into converting to Islam. If the United States was a Muslim nation, I seriously doubt that we would be under attack as we are. Islam followers believe in a concept known as jihad, or the holy war. This war must be waged upon any who pose a threat to Islam. I think that because we are imposing...
The War on Terror Assignment: Develop your point of view on the War on Terrorism
To point out what is good about this essay: It is reasonably well-written and relatively logical in the ordering of the arguments.
On the other hand, the argument sinks into fundamentalist hatred. I quote from the essay:
"[God] allowed our country [to] be attacked because we deserved it. How many times did He let His people, the nation of Israel, get attacked, defeated, and enslaved when they turned their backs on Him? The Bible is full of verses that speak about the blessings and curses of obedience and disobedience (Lev. 26, Num. 14: 39-45, Deut. 1: 41-45). We have made the same mistake that Israel made. If we really served God, would we really see all of the horrors and abominations that can so easily be found in the United States[?] If someone were to look around and tell me that they couldn't find numerous cases of abortion, murder, sexual immorality in various forms, gang wars, drunkenness, thousands of people addicted to drugs, then I would question their honesty."
So of the 300+ fire-fighters who died responding to the emergency calls from the World Trade Center, how many of them had directly procured abortions? How many of the stock-brokers incinerated in the flames of the buildings were sexual perverts? How many of the restaurant staff trapped atop Tower #1 and doomed in the holocaust that came when the building collapsed were gang members? How many murderers -- beyond the hijackers -- went down in the woods in Pennsylvania ensuring that the plane could not be used as a flying bomb? How many gang members died in the halls of Pentagon?
This essay sounds pathetically like the comments of Jerry Falwell, who was eventually so overwhelmed with negative responses that he had to apologize. Sadly, I expect no such contrition from this writer.
On the evening of September 11, I went to my church, where congretants were encouraged to write the names of any persons they knew who they believed might have been killed in the disaster. Not knowing anyone, I wrote on a small slip of paper, "For that lonely soul, known only to God, gathered to soon to His bosom." I stand by that comment.
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