17 September 2001

Dear Mr. President:

I am very concerned that our government -- despite recent genuine and heartfelt statements by our elected representatives -- does not fully understand a fundamental truth. We must not engage in "relationships" with terrorists, their sponsors or their protectors. To that end, it grieves me greatly to hear that we are asking the Taliban to deliver bin Laden. If they hand over bin Laden, we give them legitimacy. Who will they support or give safe haven to next? Look how they treat their own people.

No - no - we must END relationships with both terrorists and their sponsors. That is best accomplished by utterly EMASCULATING both the Taliban and bin Laden network (not the citizens of Afghanistan). Such emasculation must also be aimed at the governments and terrorist groups in Syria, Iraq and Libya. To do otherwise is to court continued atrocities such as that committed this past Tuesday. And we don't want that on OUR hands.

To be effective, this requires a far more clever approach than blowing up infrastructure and a far more effective approach than the economic sanctions taken to date. Let us target and emasculate our true enemies which are not the citizens of Afghanistan or any other county. Surely, we can be competent and truly effective in this. The future of our civilization depends upon it.

Sincerely,

Rod Jenkins