Don't give terrorists what they wanted

Sept. 11, 2001, saw 19 Middle Eastern terrorists backed by the finances of a renegade minor Saudi prince get lucky in their desires to disrupt and cripple the U.S. They succeeded beyond their wildest dreams by pushing the U.S. into prematurely invading Iraq, suspending or questioning some of our civil rights, scaring the nation into a system of questionable alerts and jeopardizing the very soul of our nation.

It is time to move on. Time to reconfirm our basic foundation of religious freedom, our justice system and tenets of all men being created equal. It is time to not let the gang of 19 win.

Larry Garbarek

Des Plaines