03.30.04
Leave the Terrorists Alone
Live and let live? I don’t think so…
David Wright-Neville, a terrorism expert at Australia’s Monash University, said some Abu Sayyaf members may have changed tactics due to the U.S. deployment of hundreds of troops to help Manila defeat the group after the September 11 attacks.
“It suggests that what that might have done is radicalise some elements of the Abu Sayyaf group to the point where they are now considering these sorts of mass casualty attacks,” he said.
Oh, I see. We shouldn’t try to root them out and risk angering them in the process. This is the same “leave the terrorists alone and they will leave us alone” logic that brought us the USS Cole, the 1993 WTC bombing, the Kenya Embassy bombing and eventually the WTC/Pentagon disaster of 9/11/2001.
How about considering that perhaps this is a desperate attempt at survival for a dwindling organization? Since kidnapping innocent missionaries didn’t work, the terrorists are now taking greater risks. As they come out of the jungle, they are easier to capture. Folks, this is a sign that the war on terror is being won in the Philippines.
Abu Sayyaf, adieu.
