Peace activists

are hypocrites
The peace activists who hold American policies and culture responsible for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are attempting to decorate an atrocity with artificial political significance. These peace activists are incapable of differentiating between the shortcomings of their own nation, in which freedom and democracy are fundamental principles, and acts of lunacy committed by a gang of murderous psychopaths who are harbored and supported by one of the most barbaric and repressive regimes on the planet.
These peace activists admonish us to try to understand what motivates Osama bin Laden and his associates, and to somehow appease these monsters because (apparently) no principle is worth fighting, killing or dying for. These peace activists worship the notion of “peace” above all else, and would rather give up everyone’s freedom to preserve “peace” than lift a finger — much less a weapon — in defense of the principles we as a nation hold dear.
These peace activists are hypocritical and intellectually dishonest because they take advantage of the very freedoms others have paid the ultimate price for, only to diminish that sacrifice with their ideological arrogance. The peace activists’ attempts to create moral equivalency between America’s policies and what happened on Sept. 11 are outrageous, indefensible and worthy only of contempt.

Sean Walston

graduate

physics