1.  Describe the main idea of Walter Williams' commentary.

2.  Define appeasement, collateral damage, and saturation bombing.  For each term, state whether you believe it should be used in this war against Islamo-terrorists and the states that support terrorist groups or support terrorism.  Explain your answers.

3.  With which of the following statements do you agree?  Why?
- the U.S. can't win the global "war on terror"
- collateral damage may be neccessary to save the lives of American citizens
- negotiating with terrorists is the best way to end their hatred
- going into Afghanistan & Iraq and killing Islamic terrorists only breeds more terrorists
- we have the means to win, we need to figure out how to use them

4.  For each of the following statements from Walter Williams' commentary, write agree or disagree and explain your answer:

• Today's Americans are vastly different from those of my generation who fought the life-and-death struggle of World War II. Any attempt to annihilate our Middle East enemies would create all sorts of handwringing about the innocent lives lost, so-called collateral damage (paragraph 3)
• We've seen widespread condemnation of alleged atrocities and prisoner mistreatment by the U.S., but how much media condemnation have you seen of beheadings and other gross atrocities by Islamists? (paragraph 7)
• ...Europeans'...history of weakness and cowardice during the 1930s goes a long way toward accounting for the 60 million lives lost during World War II. During the mid-'30s, when Hitler started violating the arms limitations of the Versailles Treaty, France and Britain alone could have handily defeated him, but they pursued the appeasement route. (paragraph 10)
• Appeasement will strengthen Iran's hand... (paragraph 11)

5.  Has Dr. Williams made a strong case for his opinion?  Explain your answer.

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