Getting it Right

June 28th, 2006, 10:15 am · 1 Comment · posted by elburton

I wanted to take the time to thank the Editorial staff at the East Valley Tribune for the piece they wrote in Tuesday’s edition. Now I know that the content of the piece was not on a subject near and dear to Mesa, and I know that this Blog was designed to address issues in Mesa, but, when our local paper gets it right, they need to hear from their subscribers that their words are not just dying a miserable death in a land fill. The piece was titled, "We want the bad guys caught before they act," and it is right on the money. Since the events of 911 we have seen this country polarized, we are at war with an enemy who has no creed, no country of origin, no border… they are here and everywhere. This war is a perfect storm of sorts for those who dislike the current administration; it provides them with the ability to politicize it to their advantage. Case in point the content of the editorial I mentioned at the opening. In it the Editorial staff points out that the arrest of the seven men in Miami who were plotting attacks on American soil. There are those among us who believe that these arrests were more of a matter of convenience and timing rather than a serious strike against terror. They claim that these men were nothing more than a group of disgruntled, uneducated keystone cop styled wannabe terrorists. They advance the idea that the Bush Administration is making a mountain out of a mole hill with this one. The Tribune Editorial staff got it right, they reminded us that the 19 men who boarded planes and flew them into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and attempted to hit another target in Washington DC (if it were not for the brave men and women of United Flight 93 they might have) were nothing more than hapless idiots that nobody took seriously except a few FBI agents, one or which was located here in Arizona. The Tribune Editorial staff gets two thumbs up and a snap from this reader and contributor for recognizing that today’s idiot could become tomorrow’s biggest mass murderer and politicizing any aspect of this war on terror by either side serves nothing more than to further divide a country already standing on the edge of a vast valley of discontent.

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