« Mmmm... Beer - Part II | Main | Yom Ha'Atzmaut »
April 22, 2007
What's the difference?
Last week, someone put the following comment on my site, in response to my outrage at Harry Reid's statement that the war is lost:
We spending over $100 Billion and 800 soldiers a year to keep those Iraqi bastards from killing each other? Fuck that. Save the money and let the car bombs roll in Baghdad. Fuck Iraq. Pakistan and Saudi Arabia is where Osama bin Laden and his fucking Taliban are hiding.
"Let the car bombs roll." What exactly does that mean?
On Saturday, April 14, 2007 a terrorist exploded in Kerbala. He killed and/or wounded more than 250 civilians. Most of the victims were shoppers and street salesmen. Among them were children on a school trip. Some of the victims burned to death.
This is what it looked like when that car bomb rolled:
What is this war about? Its not about Osama bin Laden, its about the ideology behind Osama bin Laden, the war is about the ideology behind the brutal and senseless murder of the child you see in the picture above, a child who should be laughing and playing and learning and living, a child who instead, perished in flames and agony, a victim of terror.
If we lose this war, it means the people responsible for the death of that child have won, and it means that they have won because they killed that child. And it means they are free to continue kill, to continue their reign of terror.
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, claimed "The three most important congressional issues of today are “our children, our children, our children: their health, their education, their economic security, their families, the environment in which they live, and safe neighborhoods.”
Obviously, Nancy wasn't talking about the child in the picture, or the other children who died in this terror attack and in other terror attacks, because Nancy, and the rest of the democrats, have decided to "let the car bombs roll." They have decided to reward the terrorists who killed that child by turning over to them Iraq and its people. The democrats have decided to support and encourage the terrorists who killed that child, instead of supporting our troops and their mission to put an end to terror.
I'm sickened by the hypocrisy of people who would claim that they are "all for the children" while they have decided not only to allow the death of that child, but are trying to convince us that to abandon Iraq to the terrorists responsible for that death, and countless others, is somehow the right thing to do. How do these democrats rationalize their support of the "resistence" that is responsible for the death of that child?
How can anyone look at the end result of evil and decide to allow it continue? Because its there and not here? Is evil less evil because it happened over there and not over here?
It has been asked before:
If you care so much for children, why do you try to prevent our troops from stopping the activity of terrorists who intentionally murder children as well as other innocent civilians?
What does "peace" mean to you? Does it mean trying your best to make sure that terrorists can operate freely?
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil,
but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
- Albert EinsteinAnd perhaps also because of the people who don't do evil but who make it easier for others to do it.
Or is there really any difference?
I'll answer that question now. There is no difference.
Posted by LindaSoG at April 22, 2007 09:43 AM
Comments
Excellent post.
There is no moral high ground in opposing war against murderous monsters.
Posted by: fabulinus at April 22, 2007 12:56 PM
Now that's telling it like it is Linda, every time the democrats come out against the war and talk about pulling out our troops, the terrorists believe that they'll win.
that picture made me want to cry. the people who did that are evil
Posted by: Rene at April 22, 2007 02:34 PM
I am in the midst of being utterly disgusted with my fellow citizens. To many, evil doesn't exist until it touches them. Then the reaction is to howl, "why didn't someone stop this!!!" My question to the whiners is, why didn't YOU stop it.
The nitwit left is literally digging our graves.
Posted by: Mark at April 22, 2007 04:40 PM
Linda, you should work for the State Department. We'd all be better off!
This last post of yours is perfect in every way.
Posted by: Kevin M at April 22, 2007 08:10 PM
Oh my. Thank you everyone, for the comments and the emails. Its so good to know that I am not alone in my thinking.
Posted by: LindaSoG at April 22, 2007 09:06 PM