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Nolan Finley had an interesting column/editorial in Sun's Det News. No doubt, it was met with a lot of cluck-clucking from the diversity crowd, but I wonder how many people really agree with Finley's point. Those who bombed and continue to try to bomb the US seem to be getting away with it. That means the actual perpetrators, the nations which sponsor and even train them, and people who applaud/abet the bombings of the US.

If you missed his piece, here it is: http://www.detnews.com/article/20110911/OPINION03/109110309/1008/opinion01/Finley--Bombs-instead-of-bells-on-9/11

I know, I know, we have to "accept and respect all cultures and all people and their ideas," even if they are Nazis, Commies, etc., you know, those who have mass-murdered. And the Islamo-fascists must be included there, too, I guess. We have to try to understand their discontent and then change what we are doing to tick them off, I guess. They are perpetrating their actions because of what we do.

Why do we have troops in Iraq and Afghanistan? To what purpose have the lives of 6200 US military personnel been lost?

If these Afghanis, Iraqis, Iranians, etc. don't want the freedoms we have in our democracy, perferring to live under brutal regimes and tyrants, that's fine with me. It's like with teachers: If they won't stand up for themselves, then they deserve what they get. Unfortunately, there are others who don't deserve what the majority get, but get it anyway. If those countries want to be what they are, let them. But make it clear if they start to mess with us, again and in any way, we'll drop the big boys on them--read that as Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Leave us alone or pay the consequences. Enough of this "Let's open a dialogue and talk out our differences." In theory, I suppose this is great. It worked just wonderfully in the 1930s with Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and the War Lords' Japan--didn't it? In fact, our insistence on talking instead of acting, led to bolder aggression on their parts. After all, "If all they are going to do is send us 'nasty letters,' let's keep up the plan!"

How soon and after 65 million deaths we forget.