[PRCo] The War Of The Roaches

[Kenneth Josephson]

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> >  #: 1569130 S9/Politics/Econ  [MENSA]
> >      13-Sep-01  20:41:08
> >  Sb: The War Of The Roaches
> >  Fm: Steven Van Dyke [KC] 70611,2147
> >  To: All
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> > Every now and then I just sort of find these short articles on my
> keyboard.
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> > The War Of The Roaches S. Van Dyke
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> > The events of Tuesday, September 11th, 2001 have been compared to  the
> > attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7th, 1941.  In many ways they
> > are the same, and yet they differ in so many others.  In 1941 a clearly
> > defined enemy made a clearly defined attack on a military target.  Yes,
> > there were civilian casualties, as there almost always are in war, but the
> > intent was clearly to strike at our military might.  The new attacks were
> > from shadowy forces hiding in the civilian population, striking at
> > civilians with a clear intent to maximize the loss of civilian life.
> >
> > 09-11-2001 is a date that will long be remembered, and in part it will be
> > remembered as the opening salvo in a new World War.  But this will not be
> a
> > war between nations where the lines can be drawn on a map and the enemy is
> > known, but more like a homeowner battling an infestation of cockroaches,
> > pestilent vermin that infest our very homes.  We can, and we will, crush
> > those that we expose, but up to now we haven't thought them a serious
> > enough threat to root out entirely.
> >
> > Now that they have declared open war upon the civilized world, we *will*
> do
> > what must be done.  The world of today isn't like houses set well apart
> > from one another, it's more like an apartment building where a problem in
> > one unit has effects on all of the others.  To root out these roaches we
> > must clean up not only our own home but the homes of all of our neighbors.
> > Some of these neighbors have tolerated the nests in their homes because
> the
> > roaches have left them alone.  This has now ended.
> >
> > The attack in 1941 awoke the sleeping giant of the United States.  The
> > attack of 2001 has awoken something even greater: the civilized world as a
> > whole. The war we have been forced into will not be clean, even by the
> > bloody handed standards of war as we have known it.  It will be a long and
> > difficult task where much of the danger we face will come from our own
> > actions.  We must consider our acts with care so we do not destroy our own
> > homes and way of life in our battle.    There *will* be damage done in
> this
> > fight and innocent lives will be lost on both sides; a terrible price we
> > have not been willing to pay heretofore.
> >
> > Skulking about in their shadows the roaches have convinced themselves that
> > they are invulnerable, that we, the civilized world, can never defeat
> them.
> > The actions of the passengers of Flight 93 show how wrong they have been.
> > They showed that we *will* do what we *must* do, whatever the costs.
> >
> > The war has begun.  Let the roaches beware.
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