September 9, 2007 (LPAC)--Lyndon LaRouche responded today to an op ed in the Washington Post by Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, the co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission, entitled "Six Years Later, Are We Safer Today?" "Saying that, they are ducking the issue."

In their op ed Kean and Hamilton write as follows: "Outside our borders ... the threat of failure looms. We face a rising tide of radicalization and rage in the Muslim world--a trend to which our own actions have contributed. The enduring threat is not Osama bin Laden but young Muslims with no jobs and no hope, who are angry with their own governments and increasingly see the United States as the enemy of Islam.... U.S. foreign policy has not stemmed the rising tide of extremism in the Muslim world.... We have lost ground. ... We are also failing in the struggle of ideas.... U.S. policy choices have undermined support.... No word is more poisonous to the reputation of the United States than Guantanamo.... No question inflames public opinion in the Muslim world more than the Arab-Israeli dispute.... And finally, no conflict drains more time, attention, blood, treasure and support from our worldwide counter-terrorism efforts than the war in Iraq. It has become a powerful recruiting and training tool for al-Qaeda."

Lyndon LaRouche said that the issue they are ducking is the that the policy which they identify is actually an Anglo-American poicy, which comes primarily from the British, but is then echoed by Vice President Dick Cheney. The policy of a clash of civilization with Islam is the concept of Samuel P. Huntington and Bernard Lewis. It is a policy which is promoted by the British or more accurately the Brutish Empire. And its purpose is to induce the U.S. to destroy itself. This is the problem we are facing.

All patriots of the U.S. should remember 1776. Put yourself in that context and then answer the question: Which side were you on in this struggle? And which side are you on now? Are you Americans or are you British mice?