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“FEAR IS USELESS” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H7130 on Oct. 23, 2001.
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FEAR IS USELESS; WHAT IS NEEDED IS TRUST
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Culberson). Under the Speaker's announced policy of January 3, 2001, the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Pence) is recognized during morning hour debates for 5 minutes.
Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, it is such a privilege to be among the very first to rise in this Chamber after some uncertain days, to rise recognizing that timeless truth, that fear is useless, what is needed is trust.
We in this Chamber day in and day out do not only trust the American people but we trust in the God whose name is ascribed above the Speaker's chair. By reconvening here today, we make an important statement to the world, to our friends and our foes alike, that the American Government stands ready and willing and able to do the people's business even in these challenging days.
Mr. Speaker, along those lines, I rise today specifically to speak about a relationship that the United States of America enjoys. It is not difficult for Americans since September 11 to imagine living in a country made the subject of repeated attacks against our citizens and even now against our leaders. It is also easy for every American to understand why a country whose innocent citizens have been murdered and whose leaders have been attacked would take temporary and necessary military action against the government and against the perpetrators of these acts to establish a just government in the land from which these attacks were launched and also to bring to justice those who harmed those citizens and harmed those leaders.
Well, even though it is so easy to imagine and identify with that as Americans, nevertheless, Mr. Speaker, in the wake of the first-ever assassination of a cabinet official in Israel, as our partners and friends since 1948 took the necessary military action to move not only against the perpetrators of this dastardly attack but also against the authorities that have harbored them and refused to bring them to justice, what did the State Department of the United States of America say, Mr. Speaker? Permit me to quote. Philip T. Reeker, State Department spokesman, spoke to the world media yesterday and accused Israel, the Nation in question, of killing ``numerous innocent citizens,'' in its ``unacceptable military action in six West Bank towns.''
We have seen the tanks on the news, Mr. Speaker. We know, as foreign minister Shimon Peres said from our Nation's capital this morning, they have not the slightest intention of remaining in any of these West Bank towns. They are about the business of requiring that the Palestinian Authority bring to justice those who not only killed a cabinet official, have organized the death of innocent citizens in Israel, but also, Mr. Speaker, have boasted about it on television, just like Osama bin Laden has done. The United States said we, quote, ``deeply regret and deplore Israel's actions.''
What have they said of the Palestinian Authority or of Yasser Arafat or those who committed these crimes? Well, Mr. Speaker, we wrote a letter. The State Department of the United States deplores what Israel does, but we did write a letter to Yasser Arafat; not a public letter, but a very clear letter, we are told in the media, telling Arafat to make absolutely certain that the assassins were arrested.
Mr. Speaker, there is a great verse in the Bible that we have inherited from the great people of Israel. It is: ``There is a friend who sticks closer than a brother, and now is a time for such friends.'' But why do we capitulate about Israel? I submit, Mr. Speaker, it is very simple. The reason we capitulate about Israel is because we are afraid. We are afraid, Mr. Speaker, to offend, to offend moderate Arab states that are assisting us in our own quest against a morally bankrupt government and against terrorists who attack our leaders and our innocent citizens.
But we need not be afraid. We need to recognize that fear is useless. What is needed is trust. The most powerful message we can send to our new friends in the Arab world is that we are good friends. What is a more powerful or compelling message to send to King Abdullah in Jordan or King Fahd in Saudi Arabia than to say, ``When the going gets tough, when your Nation does what is necessary to be done, we will stand with you.'' America will always stand for justice and restraint. But America must stand with Israel.
America will stand with its friends, for fear is useless. What is needed is trust.
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