Forget Iraq, fight terrorists

America will never win the war in Iraq. We will never win the “war on terror.”And they are two distinctly different entities, no matter what this administration tells us. The radical Islamists are a movement without a country, but they are all the more dangerous because they are true believers. By definition, the fanatics are irrational; therefore, there is no way to deal with them. Why are we in Iraq? The murderers of Sept. 11 were Saudi Arabians. The Saudis play a double game — to prevent the radicals from attacking them, they pay them off, which demonstrates their loyalty to their religion. The administration may want us to believe the Saudis are on our side, but no Muslim would betray his religion by being our friend, except as a deception. Why is it that no Saudi prince has been killed by radicals? Because the Saudi royal family gives them money to buy arms to kill us. The philosophy of fighting terrorists in Iraq so we don't have to fight them here is completly wrong-headed. We need to get out now. We also need to break our dependency on Mideast oil by aggresively developing alternative forms of fuel. We need to demand that our government and Big Oil stop using our brave soldiers as security guards for oil interests in the Mideast. Let the Iraqis battle over their differences without our interference. We need to secure our borders and ports. We need to use covert methods to deal with invasions and plots. We need to distance ourselves from this threat that can never be defeated. They will never stop. Mary Gibbin, Galloway Twp - Published in the Atlantic City Press, August 19,2006