Petticoat Discipline Monthly
Volume 2 No 9 September 2001
A publication of petticoated.com
Requiesat en pace...until the rebuilding commences.

'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing'
-Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) 

The United States, the greatest and freest country on earth, and the country on whose continued existence the future of freedom anywhere on the planet ultimately depends, is under direct attack. The people and government of the the United States need to understand that the great number of the population in all countries are behind them to a man. The humble rug weavers in Afghan villages do not wish the United States harm, and the terrorists, who are supported and given sustenance by governments like that of Afghanistan, are no more representative of their populations than the abhorrent, immoral refuse of institutions like Harvard University, or the British Broadcasting Commission, are representative of their populations.

However, if further attacks like this one are to be avoided, then the support networks of terrorism, and that means the governments of several countries, as well as the scorpions' nests of terrorist enclaves and training camps in these same countries, must be utterly destroyed. This is not a problem of individuals; executing bin Laden will achieve absolutely nothing except to encourage further terrorism, because there are thousands ready to take his place. A massive military reponse is required against those countries who actively harbour and train terrorists. The idea that the governments of these counties are somehow unaware that the terrorist enclaves are there, and must therefore be judged innocent, is too ridiculous for words.

The left are shreiking for appeasement. Appeasement is precisely the policy that America has been following in the face of terrorism for more than three decades. And this has been the result. Only one policy will stop the unleashing of further horrors upon this great and trustful nation: a policy of zero tolerance, from now on. If such a policy had been followed from the 1970s, this attack would never have taken place - in fact this attack could never have taken place. The support networks that allowed it to take place would never have existed. 

The response must be by the United States, in the name of protecting its own population, and its own political liberty, and of properly and justly avenging the dead of all nations who perished under such awful circumstances on September the eleventh. The United Nations must play no part, because the United Nations, under all circumstances, is merely a recipe for paralysis, and a sanctuary for, and legitimisation of, the very governments which America must now fight.

'Petticoat Discipline Monthly' is publishing a long article on the necessary response to the terrorists' acts. I do try to keep the tone of this magazine cheerful and optimistic, but I am not going to ignore this. Back in the 1950s as an impressionable young girl, I saw a frightfully British film called 'No Time for Tears', about the life of a young nurse in the children's ward of an English hospital. The title meant that if a child was seriously ill, then the immediate task of the medical staff was to fight the disease with every means and strength that they had. While the child was alive, there was no time for tears, and they would not help.

As the article that I have reproduced partly says, now is not the time for tears, even though thousands of people have perished. To the terrorists that looks like weakness, and I wish to God the president of the United States understood that.

Now America must fight for its very life. The memorials can come later.

Susan MacDonald
September 14 2001

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A Contribution for Victims and Their Families

   Several readers have written to me offering contributions to help this magazine continue. That is not necassary; the magazine    .  will continue, and will remain a free publication. However, I would like readers to consider contributing to a fund to assist those . .  most affected by the outrageous terrorist attacks of September the eleventh. A contribution can be made at Petticoat Pond, .  . .  and details are at this link: 
Petticoat Pond Assistance Fund

  Readers have my absolute 100% assurance that the money will reach those for whom it is intended. Nobody loves the United  . . States, and especially the city of New York, more than Tessy Staylace. 

  Susan MacDonald. 

 
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