I hold a different perspective from that held by Marvin Jones
and Rich Peterson. Here is my view of our recent past. The long
Cold War, marked by opposing nuclear arsenals to destroy the world,
performed as World War III. This war lasted until the fall of the
Soviet Union.
I hold a different perspective from that held by Marvin Jones and Rich Peterson. Here is my view of our recent past. The long Cold War, marked by opposing nuclear arsenals to destroy the world, performed as World War III. This war lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union.
War and terrorism are not the same. Terrorists proclaim allegiance to no country. That fact leaves no country with which to retaliate or extract retribution. Terrorists are international criminals. The world has suffered at their hands and the international community has no problem bringing terrorists to justice.
We have terrorists in our own country. Timothy McVeigh comes to mind. He was responsible for blowing up the Murray Federal Building in Oklahoma City. That American received the full force of the United States criminal justice system.
Terrorism is not a recent phenomenon. Terrorists stunned the world when they killed athletes at the Munich Olympics. Our own Mark Spitz made an early departure from those games. Well before that, in the 1930s, terrorists burned the Reichstag in Berlin. After that event, Adolph Hitler rode the fear of the German people to power.
More recent occurrences were the attacks on the U.S. Marines in Lebanon and quite recently was the attack on the USS Cole. Terrorist attacks are criminal attacks. As such, they come under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, which needs the full force and cooperation of the United States.
Mary Zanger,
Hollister
