The Real Culprits

The first world trade center bombing killed only five people and looked more like the work of a bumbling amateur conspiracy, even if perhaps one financed from abroad. But the terrorist dangers in the century ahead are of a different magnitude. Consider for a moment the three most volatile developments in today's world; Nuclear proliferation, know--how, and the upsurge of radical Islam. 

Together they produce the unnerving prospect of, helping Iran with the BOMB! This is no IDLE possibility. It scares me to even think that the leaders of a nation like Iran, are capable of producing a bomb. They smoke so much opium, they feel no pain, they have no conscience, that goes for all the opium smoking fanatics, these people have been doing it for century.  

Iran has already bought three sophisticated submarines, long-range planes and large numbers of missiles and other equipment from RUSSIA. Tehran also shows marked eagerness to acquire nuclear technology. How else could you explain such an oil-rich nation's order of two nuclear power plants from China and Russia? Iranian collaboration on nuclear technology with Pakistan, a country believed on the verge of deploying nuclear weapons. 

Nor has Iran abandoned its sponsorship of international terrorism. It supports with money and training Islamic revolutionaries operating in countries like Egypt and Algeria. Iraq and Libya are two more virulently anti-western nations with nuclear aspirations and terrorist ties. Sooner or later, a determined saboteur will likely lay hands on a truly fearsome weapon.

 Every effort must be made to strengthen the safeguards against such an event, without turning this country into a police state. The World trade center bombing has pointed out the need for more effective border controls; the State department and the immigration and naturalization service simply must do better at screening out illegals and people with terrorist ties. Perfect security is unattainable, but with the stakes of terrorist attack dramatically rising, that is all the more reason to take what precaution we can. This is my view. What's yours? 

David Billingsley