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What Do We Do?
By Sally Morem
 I wrote the following in response to a humanist web site’s request for responses to the terrorist attacks on America on September 11, 2001:
We now know that the terrorists have tried to do very serious damage toAmerica many times in the past, each time thwarted by our security forces.This time the terrorists succeeded. I am very sad and extremely furious.The terrorists ripped into America, erasing thousands of our fellowAmericans’ lives from the universe.As secular humanists, we can’t give their families religious comfort by promising life after death for their loved ones. We can only give meaning tothis horrendous travesty by accepting the challenge history and the terroristshave flung at us: The systematic tracking down and destruction of everyterrorist organization in the world. We are the only power with the militaryand technological know-how for the job. We must take the responsibility.We can’t duck it the way we did after World War I and the beginning of World War II. I believe our Jewish friends will not mind if we borrow their saying, “Never Again.”Appeasement is dead. Pacifism is dead. Cultural relativism is dead. Moralrelativism is dead. Equivalence theory is dead. We know evil when we seeit. The Islamic extreme fundamentalists are evil. They would kill everysingle American if they could, Israel or no Israel. They would stop atnothing. Why? Because we Americans are sinners in their eyes with our freedom, our wealth, and our free-wheeling culture. We stand in their waymerely by existing.So, they believe Allah orders genocide.We are at war. What, besides donations to survivors, can we do?
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