Letter: How many lives must we sacrifice to accept Muslim refugees?

Would 9/11 -- when nearly 3,000 Americans were killed and many others injured -- have happened if those particular Muslims hadn't been here?

Would the World Trade Center bombing have happened if those particular Muslims had not been here?

Would the Fort Hood massacre have happened if that known radical Muslim had been stopped?

Would the Boston massacre have occurred if those Muslims had not been here?

Would the San Bernardino, Calif., massacre have occurred if those Muslims had not been here?

Would we be as worried about those Muslims now living among us who are just waiting for the opportunity to kill more of us if they had not been permitted to be here?

The answer is obviously a big no.

Now we have a president and Democratic Party that insists we bring more into our country. They appeal to our sympathy, pleading that many are simply poor, innocent women and children and men needing help. Our experience in these recent years has proven that some of those children grow up to hate us and plan our destruction and that of others in our world.

Now, each of us should answer a very key question. Have the lives of all those Americans lost and maimed, and the pain and suffering plus financial cost, been worth it to us?

And what about those American lives that, no doubt, will be lost in the future? How many more American lives are we willing to sacrifice before we say "enough"?

Richard Fordyce

Bluffton

This story was originally published December 22, 2015 at 8:26 AM with the headline "Letter: How many lives must we sacrifice to accept Muslim refugees?."