Rhetorical pro-Bush/anti-Bush talk aside, our election has one basic question to be answered: How will the U.S. deal with terrorism? This question must be answered with a context of what terrorism is. One need not go any farther than in Russia. Chechen terrorists took a school hostage, and an ensuing battle left hundreds of people dead.

Truthfully, any force that preys on attacking civilians to draw attention to itself and to elicit emotions from the observing world must be destroyed. Such people, while believing themselves to have a political agenda, succumb to life’s basic emotion: hatred.

There is an axiom to love one’s enemy, that mercy is the most noble character of man. Terrorism exists because one group hates another, and that is how they can take war to civilians and kill women and children (a school, for instance). Such things cannot be reasoned with; they must be destroyed and the ideas behind terrorism disproved.

I do not believe John Kerry would do this. George Bush has.

David Sheets

Junior

Electrical Engineering