For Immediate Release:
September 20, 2001

America didn't need a coalition to strike a killing blow to the world's terrorists. All we needed was the courage to act.

Certainly, we could use a few legitimate allies who we could depend upon. It would also be useful to obtain intelligence and logistical support from other friendly nations. But we certainly did not need this so-called coalition.

This coalition serves no military purpose. It appears to have been designed by our State Department, not our Defense Department. It was more an act of political correctness than a plan of action.

Ask yourself why are we asking countries like China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan and even Cuba to join our Coalition to fight terrorism? And why do we feel the need to bribe some of these countries to join the Coalition by offering aid packages, removing sanctions or forgiving debt owed to us?

I seriously question, not just the value, but the motives of so-called "friends" like the Arab League, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, China or Iran's offer of "'full solidarity' with United States in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks" The Arab League? Iran? China? These are our allies? Who's kidding whom?

These guys aren't going to help us. Why are we inviting them to join the Coalition Against Terrorism when we know they support and arm terrorists?

China inked up a trade agreement with the Taliban on September 11th, the day of the attack. And weren't they the country selling Silkworm missiles to Iraq during Operation Desert Storm?

In this age of political correctness, America has forgotten how to conduct a war.

Our spy satellites had been tracking every terrorist camp for decades. All of this effort at coalition building has given the terrorists the time they needed to break camp and go underground.

Within hours after the bombing, we could have ... and should have ... blasted every known terrorist training camp with the intent of killing as many terrorists as possible.

If we are claiming to be making war on all terrorists, it was unimportant whether a particular group of terrorists did or did not participate in this particular attack on America. And we -- not Russia or China or any other "ally"-- should decide who we think are legitimate targets for termination.

If we allow Coalition members to vote on who is a terrorist, the worst of them will be exempted and our so-called "War on Terrorism" will be about as effective as our "War on Drugs" or any of our other half-hearted, coalition hamstrung, politically correct, multicultural failures.

Thousands of Americans lie dead in the rubble and our leaders are still posturing and trying to get world opinion on our side. This is not how you fight a war on terrorism.

A real war will be dirty and ugly. We need to have the moral courage to avenge the murder of our fellow Americans alone, if necessary, and without world opinion on our side.

This is our war. If friends and allies want to help, fine. But, at the end of the day, it will be America who will rid the world of terrorism.