America is not a terrorist state
Matthew Ullrich should have stopped his Nov. 5 article, “America’s Problems Run Far Deeper,” with his admission, “I do not know many things.” The rest of his article only serves to confirm that point.
Ullrich makes three major claims that are problematic. First, he claims, “If innocent civilians suffer at the hands of our government, we are no better than the terrorists we seek to kill.” That is just wrong. What Ullrich ignores is intent; the American government does not strive to kill as many innocents as it can, while the terrorists do. Although the American army does sometimes kill noncombatants, it tries as best it can to avoid civilian casualties while the terrorists purposefully target innocents, including women and children. The moral blameworthiness attributable to each side is not even close to comparable.
The second claim Ullrich makes is that the terrorists hate us because we hate them: “as long as we support hatred, that hatred will be expressed through our government and will most certainly come back to us.” The terrorists do not hate us because we hated them first! Al-Qaeda did not attack America as a response to hatred of Islamic terrorism that had been brewing in American society and was “expressed through our government”! To argue that America “is asking for it,” comes dangerously close to excusing the purposeful murder of innocent people by the terrorists. We are not at fault for the terrorists’ murder of innocent people.
Ullrich’s third problematic assertion is that “we are different only in wealth and geography from the people we hate,” that both groups fight for freedom and against injustice. In reality, the terrorists we fight hate freedom. We are different from them in that we love democracy and freedom, and they hate it.
They want to rid the world of the infidels, starting with Jews and Americans, and we want a world of tolerance and peace. The war on terrorism is not a big misunderstanding between cultures; rather, it is a fundamental opposition between those who hate, oppress and promote a culture of death, and those who celebrate life, seeking democracy and freedom for all. Ullrich’s attempts to justify the motivations of Islamic terrorists, and his claims that we are no different from the terrorists are an outright affront to any reasonable moral code.
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