Why We Must Win the War on Terror

By a Concerned Parent

Bombs explode in the early morning. 100+ children lie around the entrance to their school, ripped and torn to pieces. Many of them are unrecognizable. But I know that coat and that lunch box. There lies my child.

This is a nightmare I have on occasion. I seem to have it much more frequently when I hear people on the news talk about how we have to get out of Iraq as soon as possible, yet offer no plan of action to do so. I listen very closely to hear their plans. How will we do it? How will we make sure the terrorists do not follow us back to the U.S.? I hear no answers, only rhetoric.

Moments later, the television screen is full of news from Israel. Another homicide bombing has taken place killing innocent people and maiming others for the rest of their lives. A cold seed of dread begins to grow in my stomach. Will the next clip of a homicide bombing be in a neighborhood I recognize? A neighborhood I grew up in, perhaps? A neighborhood right here in America?

Can we withdraw from Iraq without first making certain that everything is settled there? If we do, will the terrorists not follow us back to the U.S. and change the face of our country forever? Oh wait, they have already done that. On September 11^th, 2001, terrorists flew commercial airliners into the World Trade Center in New York and irrevocably changed the face of our country while also leaving thousands of families bereft of their sons, daughters, wives and husbands. It happened once. It can happen again. However, it is our chief duty to make sure a tragedy, like 9/11, never happens again.