Tom Tancredo: Attack Mecca And Medina To Stop Terrorism
Earlier this month Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo reiterated that the way to stop a terrorist attack from occurring in the U.S. is by attacking the holy sites of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia as retaliation. The Colorado Republican added that this was the only thing he could think of that could prevent somebody from doing what they may otherwise do.
“If it is up to me, we are going to explain that an attack on this homeland of that nature would be followed by an attack on the holy sites in Mecca and Medina. Because that’s the only thing I can think of that might deter somebody from doing what they otherwise might do.”
It doesn’t end there. I say reiterated in the first paragraph because in a 2005 radio address he made similar remarks, claiming that if an attack was determined to be a result of radical Islam that one could “take out their holy sites.”
“Well, what if you said something like — if this happens in the United States, and we determine that it is the result of extremist, fundamentalist Muslims, um, you know, you could take out their holy sites.”
This is a great example of the abhorrent leadership that is percolating throughout the United States currently. On the right you have innumerable conservatives pushing the anti-terror, pro-war agenda and trying to make us live in fear so that we may cede unprecedented control of our lives over to Bush and Co. And on the left you have unaccountable idiocrats who have had so many opportunities to halt the runaway Neo-Con train and have failed miserably time after time.
I don’t feel it prudent to delve into the logic behind why attacking Islam’s holiest sites is a bad idea, as this should be well beyond self-evident, but if for some reason you are lacking in reason let me know and I’ll be happy to revisit this.
2 Comments, Comment or Ping
Alexander
The interesting view of Tancredo’s is that American cities are at least as “holy” as Mecca.Therefore a nuclear strike on our “holy” cities would mean that a place like Mecca is
no off the table as a target.
People may disagree with Tancredo, but many inadvertently will raise the lost of Mecca as worst than the lost of American cities.
Tancredo’s theme this election cycle is that political correctness can kill us as a nation.It is hard enough for some people to even say “illegal alien” rather than “undocumented”. We are not in a war
against “terror” It is a war with radical islam and a President needs to say anything that might deter them.
Tancredo has already said that this is a deterent to a nuke attack on your city. My guess if that the day after your city is gone and the US
economy and life in shambles, even a peaceful guy like you will not care about what happens to Mecca.
Aug 16th, 2007
CHARLES O'NEIL
Tancredo, whether crackpot or genius, should know that his timing is off. A nuclear strike on 9/12 might have worked with the sympathy of the
majority of nations, but now is a bit too late. We have to go along with the nutty liberals who espouse that we play by Marquis of Qr\ueensbury rules and tell the terrorists they may use every dirty trick in the book.
Sep 27th, 2007
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