Shots Across The Bow

London

Al Qaida has struck again, this time slaughtering innocent passengers on a London bus and on the tube. And without hesitating for a split second to mourn those innocents killed, the usual suspects on both sides of the political spectrum began to take advantage of their deaths to score political points. Liberals point to the bombings as a refutation of the "flypaper" strategy; conservatives point to the relative impotence of Al Qaida (37 vs nearly 3000) as proof that we are winning. Liberals blame the attack on the US, saying if we weren't in Iraq, then we wouldn't be targets; conservatives blame the attack on liberals, saying that if we were tougher on the prisoners at Gitmo, we'd be able to stop attacks like this.

It's all crap!

The only folks at fault in this are the assholes who planned the mission, planted or wore the explosives and detonated them. They bear all of the blame.

Period.

Anyone who wants to look for "root" causes or shift any portion of the blame anywhere other than squarely on the terrorists is missing one, simple, key, undeniable fact:

The targets of this mission were innocent civilians. Not army, not police, nothing but ordinary folks doing nothing more than going to work in the morning.

And now they're dead.

I don't care what the terrorists' excuses are. I don't care what wrongs they think have been committed aginst them. I don't care what their political or religious objectives are. Nothing justifies striking out at innocent people.

NOTHING!

These terrorists are condemned by their own actions. They show that they are nothing but animals, bereft of whatever gift it is that separates most men from beasts. Humans do not follow the law of the jungle anymore; humans follow a higher law, and that law says you don't engage in indiscriminate slaughter of innocents. Punishment, retribution, justice, whatever you want to call it is visited on the guilty, not the innocent. And make no mistake about the "bravery" of these dogs; terrorists deliberately choose targets that cannot fight back. They're cowards who can only strike at the weak becaue they fear facing the strong. They see themselves as predators, while we see them as what they ruly are, scavengers and eaters of carrion. Unclean in the eyes of their God and ours. They are not humans beings that need to be understood; they are rabid animals that need to be put down.

So don't dare come to me and talk about liberal this or conservative that when there are innocent bodies lying in pieces in a London subway. Don't dare come tell me how this is Bush's fault or Blair's fault, or Kennedy's fault or anybody's fault other than the bastards who pushed the buttons.

Not today, not tomorrow, not ever.

Posted by Rich at July 7, 2005 11:09 PM | TrackBack