June 21, 2006
Remember The Pacific
By now, you know that the two missing 101st Airborne troopers have been found dead. According to news reports, they had been severely tortured. You know, by adherents to the Religion of Peace.
Have no doubt that the men of the 101st will deal with this the same way the Marines on Tarawa, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Saipan and many other places dealt with Japanese brutality: they will simply stop taking prisoners. I don't imagine they take many now, but the value placed on a sub-human radial Islamist in Iraq has now swiftly dropped into negative numbers.
Although it is both disrespectful to the dead and their families, I wish there was a way to let the average American know what was done to these men before they died. This country needs to witness how savage these pigs really are. I think it might help put things in perspective the next time John Murtha or John Kerry opens his mouth.
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Nick Berg, Eugene Armstrong, Hundreds of Iraqis and now Thomas Tucker and Kristian Menchacha. The list goes on ...
It's the diamond bullet from Apocalypse now. For those too young to know what I'm talking about, go watch that movie. For those that have forgotten,
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".... It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember. I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we.
You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment. Because it's judgment that defeats us ..... "
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I know what Matt is saying. For the insurgents/jihadis/terrorists, horror is the only effective weapon they have. They cannot win by attrition and they cannot endear people to thier cause by their actions. And thus I cannot fault our soldiers for doing whatever they have to do. They didn't start this war or CHOOSE to go to Iraq. They took an oath, and are following orders.
As a person of faith, I just hope for our sake that in order to defeat them someday we do not BECOME them.
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at June 21, 2006 02:09 PM
It's been a long time since I've been genuinely MAD about something happening in the world, but this morning did it for me. It makes me wish our armed forces had a policy not of, "shoot to kill," but, "shoot where it will kill eventually but cause massive amount of pain before." Maybe if we start blowing testicles off and letting them bleed to death it'd show them how nice we are for making it quick and relatively painless. I hope those swine (how pleased they would be to be referred to as a pork product) realize they're only pissing us off more, and our soldiers take every death personally. I will certainly pray for peace in the Middle East, but anyone who deliberately ignores basic human dignity has forsaken their right to live, and our soldiers are more than happy to bring Judgment Day a little sooner to them.
Posted by: Michael at June 21, 2006 02:29 PMAnd the anti war crowd is complaining about our Camp Cuba!
Posted by: Sly at June 22, 2006 08:47 AM
pull the troops, nuke the shithole.
Posted by: Troy Overton at June 22, 2006 02:08 PM
And if we did nuke the shithole, High Priest Teddy Kennedy of the Democratic Church of Hypocrisy could celebrate, since we *technically* reduced our nuclear arsenal...
Posted by: Michael at June 23, 2006 01:45 PM