"The Terrorists Don't Hate What We Do as Much as Who We Are, So There Is No Safe Place to Retreat to"
(From annexed Wall Street Journal, Review & Outlook - Opinion Section, Friday, July 8, 2005)
                                                                                                                              

Questions and Answers are cited below as

"Q" and "A"

1. Q: The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) so correctly concludes:

". . . [W]e should have learned by now that appeasement wins no reprieve."

A: Agreed.

2. Q: Are there examples of this?

A: Yes. WSJ notes:

"Spain's post-Madrid departure from Iraq hasn't spared that country from further terror attempts. Even a complete Western withdrawal from Iraq would still leave the continuing affront to al Qaeda that is NATO's presence in Afghanistan. And retreat from battling the Islamists in the Middle East would only make it easier for them to take the battle to us at home as they did yesterday in London."

3. Q: Does WSJ describe the present events correctly as "Israelization of terror"?

A: Yes.

4. Q: How does the U.S. Islamic population compare with Europe's and Israel's?

A: "The U.S. Islamic population is less radicalized than Europe's and, unlike in Israel, the terrorists lack the safe haven of Palestine. But it is virtually impossible in a free society to stop a fanatic willing to kill himself with a backpack full of explosives. That Islamists haven't mounted such an attack in the U.S., suggests not they aren't willing but that they haven't been able to."

5. Q: Before Israel's Prime Minister Sharon transfers to the his Arab enemies, the invaluable "Gaza Strip," should he heed what is said in paragraph 2A above?

A: Yes.

6. Q: Is " America less vulnerable than Europe to this Israelization of terror"?

A: No.

"But it is hardly immune. The U.S. Islamic population is less radicalized than Europe's and, unlike in Israel, the terrorists lack the safe haven of Palestine."

7. Q: Doesn't what Sharon is about to gift to Israel's Islamists, viz the Gaza and parts of the "West Bank," - amount to assuring Israel's enemies "the safe haven of Palestine," - from which they can destroy Israel?

A: Plain Talk is convinced that the answer to the last question is "Yes."

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