Tancredo for President: Stop Immigration Now
So the New York Times yesterday (sorry, I'm catching up) featured an op-ed from a couple of people on madrassas, and whether they're really using official state textbooks to teach Middle Eastern kids to hate America. I'm not hugely interested in that discussion (these folks argue no) but I found an interesting set of statistics about something I've been thinking about:
The 1993 World Trade Center attack involved 12 men, all of whom had a college education. The 9/11 pilots, as well as the secondary planners identified by the 9/11 commission, all attended Western universities, a prestigious and elite endeavor for anyone from the Middle East. Indeed, the lead 9/11 pilot, Mohamed Atta, had a degree from a German university in, of all things, urban preservation, while the operational planner of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, studied engineering in North Carolina. We also found that two-thirds of the 25 hijackers and planners involved in 9/11 had attended college.Of the 75 terrorists we investigated, only nine had attended madrassas, and all of those played a role in one attack - the Bali bombing. Even in this instance, however, five college-educated "masterminds" - including two university lecturers - helped to shape the Bali plot.
So yes, that shifty-eyed foreigner next to you in comp-sci actually is planning on blowing up America and everything we hold dear. As the article points out, many of these terrorists are just as well educated as many preppy Americans. So I think it's time to rule out plain ignorance as the root of anti-American terrorist sentiment.
Frankly, I'm not completely sure why the terrorists do this stuff when they should know better, or at least know that they have better options. The refrain you hear is that terrorists hate America more than they love life, which, while true, leaves too much unsaid. My suspicion is that these kids are raised to believe America only wants to hoard the world's resources at the expense of everyone else, comes to America (or some other Western country), discovers that, indeed, we are that rich, vapid, and uninterested in befriending culturally unadjusted Middle Easterners, and sure enough they come home ticked off and ready to tell their fellow countrymen that all they had believed is true. Now, having read the preceding sentence means you've thought about the terrorists' thought process and motives, thus meaning they've already won, but does that have any sense to it? It's the best idea I can come up with.
Comments
I agree. We need to secure our home land by closing off our borders. I believe that if we fail to take immediate action now, This great nation Call "America" will self distruct from within.If you think that were Winning the fight against Terrorism, open your eyes, look around and think again!
Posted by: Wayne Apice | January 30, 2006 6:36 AM
That's not at all what I was saying. Vote Democrat!
Posted by: Terry | January 30, 2006 8:05 AM
This Great Nation has already been put in "self destruct" mode by the very people we elect to up-hold OUR constitution. When I walk down the street i see store signs that are written in Aribic, Chinese and Spanish. Americans don't own these stores anymore, and the defainetly don't work in them! Why would anyone pay an american $5 for what an Mexican would do for $2.50?
The War on Terror?! What's that? It's not a War on Terror, It's a war over u.s. dollars. who's gonna have the strongest ties in a peacefull and oil rich middle east in 20 years from now?
Posted by: James C. | January 31, 2006 2:25 AM
This Great Nation has already been put in "self destruct" mode by the very people we elect to up-hold OUR constitution. When I walk down the street i see store signs that are written in Aribic, Chinese and Spanish. Americans don't own these stores anymore, and the defainetly don't work in them! Why would anyone pay an american $5 for what an Mexican would do for $2.50?
The War on Terror?! What's that? It's not a War on Terror, It's a war over u.s. dollars. who's gonna have the strongest ties in a peacefull and oil rich middle east in 20 years from now?
We will have peace once America starts implimenting immigration laws like the ones Austriallia enforces.
It kills me to see that "fat slob" sally struthers hold up a starving baby and tell America that they should adopt this starving baby because it's the Cristian thing to do! The Christian thing to do is to help clothe and feed starving AMERICAN babies.
People can make a mockery outta religion can't they!?
Posted by: James C. | January 31, 2006 2:32 AM
The Christian thing to do is to help clothe and feed starving AMERICAN babies.
I never understood why Christ talked so much about America.
Posted by: Terry | January 31, 2006 3:56 PM