Editor,
I am writing in response to the sentiment that, "rather than engaging in military retaliation we should enter into a period of introspection to think about what we have done, as a country, to provoke these attacks," that has been bandied about campus. As a thinking woman, I am insulted and outraged.
The idea that the United States is somehow at fault because we don't espouse the same political ideals as the terrorists is like telling a rape victim that she was at fault because she was wearing a miniskirt.
Let us not forget, America, that this is about much more than some terrorists attacking our way of life. These terrorists intend to replace our way of life with their own. Let us not confuse religious tolerance of the truly good, Allah-fearing Muslims with the idea that fighting back against this evil is wrong.
Unless we warmly envision a world in which women are beaten, imprisoned and worse for going to school, working, speaking out against domestic violence or even leaving their houses without being covered from head to toe, we had all better get with the program and start gearing up for war. Not out of revenge, but because we are the only nation in the world capable of stopping this cancer from eating humanity alive.
God bless America.
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Gena McLellan
Undergraduate student
