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AN OUTLINE OF OUR WAR AIMS




Sept. 17, 2001




MARINA DEL REY, CA--We must be clear that our purpose is not mere vengeance for the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, said Robert Tracinski columnist for Creators Syndicate and senior fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. The goal of this war is a cold, practical necessity: to eliminate a threat to civilization. Tracinski's 'must do' outline of our war aims:

1. We must have a clear grasp of the means, ends, and morality of the war we are about to wage.

2. We must not regard these attacks as a criminal matter. The perpetrators are not just lone individuals, but the governments that support them.

3. We must eliminate the terrorist headquarters and training camps in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Sudan.

4. We must also depose these governments, capture or kill their leaders, and put whoever remains on trial for their war crimes--we must accept no apologies or offers of cooperation from them now.

5. We must replace these leaders with new regimes under the control of the United States--just as we did in Japan and Germany at the end of WWII.

6. We must undertake a military occupation of the Middle East to ensure that no terrorist organizations can ever again form to attack the United States.

7. We must be prepared to use nuclear weapons--just as we did to end WWII--to spare the lives of hundreds of thousands of US troops.

8. We must prepare the American people to accept a very real, protracted, all-out war--to accept the grim task ahead and to prosecute it to the end.



Ayn Rand Institute senior fellow Robert Tracinski is available for interviews.

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