Getting Tough With Terrorism :: Argumentative Persuasive Topics

Getting Tough With Terrorism   Which will it be victim or victory for the United States of America? Our leaders tell us well every day that another attack by terrorists -- possibly with nuclear, biological or chemical weapons -- is imminent. The center seems to be Get your affairs in order, make sure your will is up to date and prepare to visit thy God.   Instead of our leaders sending that message to us, how virtually them sending the message to our enemies in a package more powerful than rhetoric? any(prenominal) happened to the confidence represented by the World War I song, oer There (The Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming... and we wont come back til its all over, over there.)? Who has more to care, them or us? Do we have more to fear than fear itself?   The Sum of All Fears, now playing in a not so nuclear-free zone theater near you, is a film about neo-Nazis (a politically correct choice of a hate group selected to annoy hardly anyone), who blow up B altimore, of all places. In the film, Americans are again at the mercy of crazed hate-mongers. We are portrayed as weak to do anything about them. Viagra is often prescribed for physical impotence. Whats the regain for political and military impotence? It is victory   In his remarks to graduates of the U.S. Military honorary society at West Point, President Bush may have signaled the root system of the end of this victim attitude. Halfway with his speech, he said that our bail will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to be put up for preemptive action when necessary to defend our liberty and to defend our lives.(President)   pre-emptive action, not reaction, is whats needed. The president said we must uncover terror cells in 60 or more countries. Lets start with one cell in one country, besides Afghanistan. Villagers in some backward country that harbors terrorists should combust up one morning and notice the terrorists among them are dead or missing. People like Saddam Hussein, not Americans, should start each day looking in the mirror and wondering if today is their last day on Earth. Money should be missing from terrorist bank accounts all over the world as American intelligence confiscates large amounts of cash through electronic transfers. Terrorist cells in this country should be located, their headquarters raided and their members arrested before they be intimate what hit them.