September 11th, 2006

The site of the former World Trade Center where 2,749 innocent people died by passenger filled missiles on September 11, 2001 still haunts our soul. Some of our bravest - police and firemen - gave all that day. In the agonizing aftermath, emergency medical technicians, policemen and firemen began searching for survivors and restoring order. Construction workers stabilized the site. Together, these are the men who keep our city functioning everyday and particularly on that day of infamy. For months thereafter they continued the work that empty suits and talking heads cannot and never will. Others stood on the sides of the road cheering those who can as they kept returning for twelve-hour shifts. Religious services were held. We buried our dead.

Today, on the north side of Vesey Street, a sparkling 52-story high-rise structure replaces one of the buildings that collapsed. Deroy Murdoch, a columnist and senior fellow with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, said, “The barbarians crushed the gates, but we repelled them, with our beauty and prowess intact.” Those who can, private enterprise and capitalism, have reconstructed 7 World Trade Center. The hole in the ground where the twin towers once proudly stood remain a testament to incompetent government bureaucratic socialism and what it cannot do.

Five years have passed since the attack against freedom, individual rights, science, engineering and capitalism and yet, little has changed in our “fight” for the sanctity of our own lives. Our immediate response was to inconvenience every air traveler by making them pass through magnetometers and screening their luggage. The August 2006 foiled plot to destroy ten aircraft bound from England to the United States had us toss away water bottles and shampoo.

We sent soldiers into Afghanistan and Iraq. If we had not restrained our FBI, CIA and our military, it could have had a valid purpose as a first step in ousting the terrorist-sponsoring, anti-American regimes of the Middle East. Unmitigated restraint in the guise of political correctness is responsible for thousands of unnecessary American deaths in pursuit of the sacrificial goal of "civilizing" these countries. Totalitarian groups such as Hezbollah and Al Qaeda, and the countries supporting them such as Iran and Syria, are hell-bent on destroying capitalism and killing Americans. They sacrifice their young as suicide bombers to attack us. Golda Meir is quoted as saying, “We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.”

Western civilization is facing an ideology that would subjugate every human being to Islam and murder everyone else. Would that our President take his own words to heart and that the vapid United States Senate, lacking moral certitude, understood that Islamic totalitarianism will be achieved if allowed to impose its religious dogma by use of force. It is a moral travesty that we do not destroy our enemy using unrestrained force and with everything in our arsenal including nuclear weapons. We should grant those who wish suicide their reward. When Islamists die rather than their victims will victory be achieved as no amount of baggage screening or tossing toothpaste will make us safe.


And if we use unrestrained force, what legitimate concern should we have for possibly harming Middle Eastern “innocents”?

In a lecture concerning “The Moral Factor” held in the Ford Hall Forum in 1976, a
similar question was posed. “Assume a war of aggression was started by the Soviet Union: assume also that within the Soviet Union, there were many that opposed the aggressive work of the ruling group there. How would you handle that type of problem?”
Ayn Rand’s response is quoted: “This question is so blatantly wrong that I cannot understand how anyone can entertain it seriously. It assumes that an individual inside a country can be made secure from the social system under which he lives and which he accepts (because he hasn't left the country). It is the idea that others must surrender to aggression--in other words, be goddamned pacifists, who won't fight, even when attacked, because they might kill innocent people. In Soviet Russia, there aren't very many innocent ones – and they’re mainly in concentration camps.

If you could have a life independent of the system, so that you wouldn't be drawn into an unjust war, you would not need to be concerned about politics. But we should care about having the right social system, because our lives are dependent on it--because a political system, good or bad, is established in our name, and we bear the responsibility for it.Nobody has to put up with aggression and surrender his right of self-defense for fear of hurting somebody else, guilty or innocent. When someone comes at you with a gun, if you have one ounce of self-esteem, you will answer him by force, never mind who he is or who is behind him. If he is out to destroy you, that is what you owe to the sanctity of your own life.”

It is in our own self-interest, for the sanctity of our lives and that of other free nations whose leaders aught to be urging us to do so, that we must inflict devastation on those who would destroy us. Islamic totalitarianism ceded all “rights” on September 11, 2001.