The US has received a lot of flack for documented and suspected deaths of civilians, including women and children in the war in Iraq. Many folks, Americans included, are outraged over the accidental deaths and criticize the US for not taking more precautions. To them, America is practicing wanton killing and destruction.
Some of these same folks have called for understanding of the terrorists' mindset. They want the US to examine what we, and the rest of the Westernized world, have done to cause these terrorists to become so desperate that they would resort to appalling violence in order to draw attention to their "plight." These people want us to abandon military and combat means of eliminating the terror threat and instead try reaching out to the terrorists through diplomacy and policy change.
While our fight against terrorism may be complex and may indeed call for solutions beyond military might, how can you possibly reason with or appease someone who would do this?!?!
Wednesday in Baghdad a suicide bomber in a car noticed a group of US Soldiers handing candy out to Iraqi children. This monster sped up to the crowd of children and detonated his explosives. Twenty seven people were killed, including a Soldier and 12 CHILDREN! This bastard intentionally killed innocent children...the very children that he should be supposedly providing a better future for with his "cause."
In addition to the nearly 30 people killed, 70 more were injured, and according to a resident of the impoverished area in Baghdad where the murder took place, "The explosion was mainly on the children."
This is not the first time the terrorists have targeted children. According to the MSNBC news article linked above, 35 Iraqi children were murdered as they accepted gifts of candy from American Soldiers in September.
Do people really want us to feel sympathy for these terrorists and try to understand the causes of an ideology that promotes and executes the intentional murder of innocent little children?
I hurt for the innocent people...the fathers just trying to provide for their families, the children tucked in bed at night, the women going about their daily chores, the babies at their mothers' breasts, who are harmed or killed by an errant bomb or a wayward bullet. I hurt for those little brown-skinned babies, chattering away and chewing excitedly on their treats in that Baghdad neighborhood who were brutally murdered. I hurt for the families of those children who have lost that special child who liked to make jokes or the little one with the big, soulful eyes who always insisted on wearing his blue t-shirt despite all the holes he'd worn into it. I can't imagine anything more painful than losing a child.
I feel nothing but disgust, loathing, and utter fury at those who would intentionally kill a group of innocent children...their own children...their country's future...just to take out a Soldier.
There is no level of reasoning or understanding or negotiation or appeasement that will satisfy such a savage, blind, cruel, and blood-thirsty group of people as the terrorists we face. Sympathy and understanding is wasted on such worthless human beings. Every terrorist we kill or capture is one less that can blow babies to bits in the streets of Basra or Baghdad or Balad.
Fuck them and their beliefs.
Sick bastards.