I put that title in quotes because it’s what I’ve been saying ever since 9/11 occurred, a dark moment in US history when we lost a wonderful family member at the hands of the Saudi hijackers. (We could only have a memorial service for Carlitos because his remains were never found!) I dedicated my very first novel, Full Medical, to Carlos to soften some of that loss; but, to be honest, it didn’t help much. (We’d just had Carlos and his wife over for dinner two weeks earlier. They announced their plans to start a family!)
Ever since then, I’ve felt zero compassion for terrorists. They’re subhuman murdererous animals who indiscriminately kill innocent victims; no cause can justify that! From Carlos’s killers to MacVeigh and those who recently murdered Hersh Goldberg-Polin and other hostages Hamas kidnapped on October 7, terrorists are purely evil monsters who deserve a worse death than their victims. Certainly none of them deserve to go on living! The US has a federal death penalty. That should be applied at least to have some semblance of justice.
As Mr. Goldberg-Polin, Hersh’s father, stated at the DNC, being against terrorism isn’t a political position; it’s being human when confronting subhuman insanity! Terrorists aren’t human, no matter what religion or ideology (or lack thereof) they claim to have as their motivation.
The presidential campaigns have barely mentioned terrorism. Donald Jackass Trump’s should be anti-Hamas at least; after all, this Fascist Party of America’s candidate has a daughter and son-in-law who are Jewish. But Narcissus le Grand has cozied up far too much with MBS (Saudi Arabia was responsible for 9/11, and bin Laden, who finally met his just deserts from the Obama administration, was a Saudi–those brainwashing, radical Saudi Araabian religious schools are still supported by MBS!). Trump, ever the psychotic sociopath, is driven only by greed and power, though, so he’ll have no problem betraying his own flesh and blood to support someone he admires like MBS; moreover, he’s a coward, isolationist, and dimwitted fascist too, just a member of their club, as January 6 showed.
The Harris-Walz campaign had better watch out, though. Their opponents, Trump and J. Done-Nothing Vance are quite capable of lying about how they’d handle terrorism, which is ironic, because Trump’s attempted coup on January 6, 2021 was a terrible terrorist act that should have put the wannabe American fuehrer in front of a firing squad for being an American traitor. (No wonder the fascist SCOTUS judges gave him immunity!) In particular, Harris can’t hesitate to shut down any violent demonstrations in support of Hamas terrorists that will probably occur again on college and university campuses and elsewhere. Fascists will immediately attack her if she shows any sign of weakness. That shouldn’t be a problem for her because her hubby is Jewish, but politician’s choices are all too often incomprehensible. (Just consider McCain’s choice of Palin!)
I sympathize with the Goldberg-Polin family. I’ll feel much better if both presidential campaigns come out strongly against terrorism, even going as far as creating a generalized “wanted dead or alive” BOLO against every terrorist, current or future. (The mastermind of 9/11, is still alive in Guantanamo. Shouldn’t he have been executed long ago?)
We need to exterminate terrorists wherever and whenever possible. We will never have a safe and secure world if infestations like Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorists, including the January 6 rioters and all their fascist leaders, Trump too, are allowed to continue their violent attacks against innocent people. Think of Earth as our house; it’s time to destroy its deadly, invasive pests!