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DECLARE WAR


Sept. 20, 2001


MARINA DEL REY, CA--Today in the Washington Post, the founder of the Ayn Rand Institute, Dr. Leonard Peikoff, released a full-page editorial outlining the historical and moral reasons to justify a war against terrorist nations. Highlights include:

* If we do not wage a proper war now, then when? If our appeasement has led to an escalation of disasters in the past, can it do otherwise in the future? Do we wait until the terrorists unleash against us the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons they are rushing to get hold of? The future of America is at stake. The risk of a U.S. overreaction, therefore, is negligible. The only risk is underreaction.

* The greatest obstacle to U.S. victory in our war against terrorism is not Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and their allies, but our own intellectuals. Even now they are preaching the same ideas that led to our historical paralysis. They are asking a reeling nation, in the name of 'restraint,' to apply only economic and diplomatic pressures, like those that have failed so spectacularly and for so long. The multiculturalist professors are pushing 'understanding' in the name of avoiding 'racism' (i.e., any condemnation of 'another culture'). The friends of 'love' are reminding us, not too loudly yet, of our duty to turn the other cheek.

* The choice today is mass death in the United States or mass death in the terrorist nations. Our Commander-In-Chief must decide whether it is his duty to save Americans or the governments who conspire to kill them.

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