Early Action Items
JINSA issued a press release on 13 September calling for decisive action by the U.S. government, including severing our “political relationship with any country or group whose citizens celebrate the death of innocent Americans. There is nothing to justify dancing in the streets and rejoicing over an American tragedy. This behavior tells us who our friends are, and who wishes our mortal enemies well.” JINSA believes the war goes beyond than Osama Bin Laden and Taliban, and so calls on the United States to:
JINSA issued a press release on 13 September calling for decisive action by the U.S. government, including severing our “political relationship with any country or group whose citizens celebrate the death of innocent Americans. There is nothing to justify dancing in the streets and rejoicing over an American tragedy. This behavior tells us who our friends are, and who wishes our mortal enemies well.” JINSA believes the war goes beyond than Osama Bin Laden and Taliban, and so calls on the United States to:
* Halt all U.S. purchases of Iraqi oil under the UN Oil for Food Program and to provide all necessary support to the Iraq National Congress, including direct American military support, to affect a regime change in Iraq.
* Bomb identified terrorist training camps and facilities in any country harboring terrorists. Interdict the supply lines to terrorist organizations, including but not limited to those between Damascus and Beirut that permit Iran to use Lebanon as a terrorist base.
* Revoke the Presidential Order banning assassinations.
* Overturn the 1995 CIA Directive limiting whom the U.S. can recruit to aid counter-terrorism in an effort to boost our human intelligence.
* Freeze the bank accounts of organizations in the U.S. that have links to terrorism-supporting groups and their political wings. Ask other countries and financial institutions to do the same.
* Demand that Egypt and Saudi Arabia sever all remaining ties with Osama Bin Laden, including ties with Saudi-sponsored nongovernmental organizations and groups abroad that raise money for Bin Laden and other terrorist organizations.
* Suspend U.S. Military Aid to Egypt while re-evaluating Egypt’s support for American policy objectives, and re-evaluate America’s security relationship with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States unless they actually join in our war against terrorism.
* Ensure that American technology, arms, technical support and personnel are not supplied to countries that do not fully support American objectives regarding terrorism, and through which terrorists might acquire American materiel. Ask our allies and other countries to undertake similar restrictions.
* Reassess the visa process by which nationals from hostile nations are permitted to enter the United States. And tighten controls at the Canadian and Mexican borders to prevent access by people without appropriate documentation.
* Strengthen American law enforcement efforts to identify and eliminate terrorist cells operating in the United States.
* Take immediate steps to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil. The terrorists who struck on Tuesday changed the physical and political landscape of America. We in JINSA trust that our government and our people will make them regret that day.