Fight terrorism at its source

Our country's biggest problem nowadays is its dancing around the source of the problems. Look at Chicago - they are having a shooting almost every day. Instead of going to the source of their problem they are blaming firearms. But who is using them in those shootings - it's people! Now wouldn't you say people are the source of the problem?

Anyone can use a weapon of choice to commit a crime. So if people are the source of crime and our laws are not strict enough on crime it will surely get out of hand.

Our government has been at war since just after 9-11 saying it's to protect the people of our country from terrorists. If that is so, our military has been dancing around the source of the terrorists. If the dancing continues, Bin Laden and his big wigs will die of old age in those caves they say they are hiding in.

Anyone can become a terrorist and that has already been proven! Just how can anyone tell who is a terrorist and who is not when fighting a war in the part of the world where people have been fighting among themselves for centuries?

Is the source of the terrorist problem where our military is fighting, or is the terrorist problem somewhere else? It looks like the only way of finding out is to get Bin Laden and all his followers before they die of old age!

Warren Sullivan

Elgin