Terrorists and GOP, in common cause

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Terrorists and GOP, in common cause

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Friday October 20, 2006 · 1:33 PM PDT

2006/10/20 · 13:33

Can I hear an "Amen"? Atrios:

The point of terrorism is, as the name suggests, to terrorize. Not simply to kill and destroy, but to frighten the broader population. It puzzles me why the RNC has found common cause with terrorists in their new ad campaign, and it puzzles me more why they want to highlight the fact that over 5 years after 9/11 George Bush has failed to catch the guy responsible.

In wartime El Salvador, people showed their resolve against the terror of their times (from both the insurgents and the government) by going about their lives, refusing to cower in fear. I remember (aged 7-8) shopping at a street market with my grandmother when a couple of shots rang out. My grandmother quickly ushered me inside a store, but most people kept up as if nothing had happened. Few even looked up to see what the commotion was all about. They shrugged it off.

Yet here is our great nation, supposedly the strongest, and we can't handle a little adversity? We're playing right into the terrorists aims, which is to terrorize. And the GOP is right there helping them do it. Apparently, they both benefit from a terrorized American populace.

This isn't complicated. Terrorists want to terrorize. Republicans are helping them do so.

What would Al Qaida and Republicans do without each other?

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