Call For A Formal Declaration Of War Against Terrorism
Mark William Hopkins
Dear Senator Feingold,
Last Tuesday on September 11, two landmarks in New York City were
attacked and destroyed with a loss of life equal to a significant
fraction of the losses that would have been incurred in a nuclear
attack; and two more were planned on landmarks or significant assets
in Washington; all carried out with graphic results hauntingly similar
to, in a manner closely reminiscent of, and possibly even inspired by
the graphic scenery in the movie Independence Day; and obviously
with same motivation as that which led to those fictional acts.
People have wrongly narrowed their focus to the questions: who
carried out these particular acts? And who is ultimately
responsible for them? And what should we do against them?
These are the wrong questions. It doesn't atter who did this
particular act and there is no need or reason to even determine
which particular cell of which particular groups did what.
We already know who the enemy is.
On Tuesday, America was not attacked by terrorists. It was attacked
by Terrorism. All terrorist groups and all nations which support,
or bankroll such groups, all nations who these groups may be
underground military or paramilitary arms of, and all movements
which spawn these offshoots are at fault. Regardless of whether
any of these movements has been directly involved in this attack
or not, they are directly responsible and equally liable.
It is time to state and observe the dictum that the acts of each
are to the culpability of them all.
There is currently in existence a de facto alliance amongst each
and every one of these parties and we must recognise the emergence and
existence of this common enemy as a single identifiable entity.
Regardless of whether they themselves even recognise their own
existence as a common entity, now they are.
In large measure this is a movement that is nothing less than a
political and military arm of a worldwide radical Fundamentalist
movement; not confined to Islam, but a cancer which infests other
faiths and ideologies. This is a fact which is implicitly
acknowledged by people who, in their illucidity with respect to
the big picture I'm describing here, misdirect their acts against
Islam, itself, despite the innocence of the faith and its followers.
The problem is not the religion of Islam, which is just as much a
victim of this cancer as we are, but the cancer which infests it
and other faiths and ideologies.
But make no mistake, that problem itself is deeply rooted in the
population of the regions of the world where it is rampant and it
IS in large measure religiously inspired: nothing less than a
crusade that would have every vestige of our way of life extricated
from the face of this planet.
The situation is completely analogous to that which existed in the
mid to late 1930's at a time when the blight of Fascism was still
nothing more than a vague premonition of malice, before it too was
clearly recognised as a single identifiable entity even by the
culprits themselves.
I am therefore calling on you to take the initiative and communicate the
vision of the big picture which has clearly emerged before us; and to
sponsor a bill which will formally issue a blanket Declaration of War
simultaneously against each and every facet of this common enemy. In
this declaration will be stated an acknowledgement that there is
indeed a de facto alliance which exists amongst every one of these
groups and the supporting national governments; that there is indeed
a common enemy; and that they form a single identifiable entity who,
for fear of reprisal, currently operate in a semi-covert manner under
the cloak of Terrorism.
In this act, this alliance needs to be specifically named as the
common enemy that this act is directed against. Its membership
needs to be enumerated by the act: the names of all individual
terrorist groups which have either carried out actions against
the United States and its interests; or which have issued a declaration
of war on the United States or its way or life, or which have indicated
an intent to carry out such or similar acts against the United States.
In addition needs to be enumerated specifically every nation which has
either supported, bankrolled, housed or spawned such groups
including but not limited to Libya, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Iran,
Afghanistan or North Korea.
All the time we're supposedly looking for the enemy, their
appearance and identity has already been clearly manifest to
anyone with eyes to see; and their actions have been with us
for at least 30 years. It's time to attach a name to this
enemy; and at all costs by whatever means to seek to vanquish
and decimate in its entirety the enemy who this name is attached to.