Friday, April 20, 2007

A good metaphor for Terrorism

Found this on the 910/Vigilant Freedom Forum:

Sept. 26, 2001, New York Rabbi Ben Tzion Krasnianski wrote: "Terrorism is like a cancer, and you never make peace with cancer. Certain battles you don't have the luxury to grow tired of. Terrorism is a malignant tumor, and you don't make peace with a tumor. If you play nice with cancer, it will kill you. Show mercy to a tumor and it will metastasize and mercilessly kill you and kill itself in the process. The only merciful thing to do is to eradicate, destroy and pulverize the tumor into oblivion."

Exactly. For further elucidation please see the difference between Iraq and Israel over the last 18 months. Israel has almost completely destroyed the ability of Al-Aqsa Martyrs, Hamas and the other smaller groups to infiltrate and terrorise inside Israel. The US and Britain, on the other hand, have not 'pulverized the tumor' in Iraq at all, but have allowed it to 'metastasize'. Despite the discernable progress of the surge, it may be too late for an Iraq which as become laden down with many cancers.

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