| Tuesday, May 11 2004 |
Right then...
Well, LGF has the video.
The video of Nick Berg’s murder is one of the most demonic things I’ve ever seen. It’s available here: Northeast Intelligence Network. (The site is getting heavy traffic and is occasionally down.)
It opens with Berg sitting on a plastic chair, reciting his own name and the names of his parents and family members. The scene changes and he’s shown tied up on the floor in front of five masked mujahideen, as one reads a long droning Arabic statement from a piece of paper. The audio is a few seconds ahead of the video; suddenly you hear a chorus of screams and shouts that don’t match the video. Then, as the yelling and keening intensifies, the one who read the statement puts away the paper, pulls a long knife out of his shirt, leaps onto Nick Berg and begins sawing his head off. Another one jumps on Nick’s back and pins his arms as he dies. The others caper and dance, calling out “Allahu Akhbar!”
The screaming and gagging is nightmarish. And it’s not quick.
Okay, that's more or less the last straw for me. Fin. End. Done. I'm through with dancing around the issue and assuming that these are isolated incidents, just as I'm through with thinking it's better to target selectively and do our best to keep civilian casualties to a minimum.
We need to pull out of the areas populated by people like this, we need to surround them and give the innocents who wish to leave 24 hours to do so, and then we need to do this:
Enough is goddamn enough. These people need to be broken, and shown the realities of their actions. Lobbing million dollar smart bombs and treating them with kid gloves just isn't cutting the mustard. This crap needs to stop, it needs to stop now, and that's the best way to stop it.
In 1945 we faced an enemy which would fight to the last man, one which would never surrender or reform unless made to. Before that could happen, they had to be shown that continued aggression would result in complete and total annihilation. They were, they surrendered, and we gave them democracy. In the last 60 years, they've flourished as a result and become an industrial and technology powerhouse rivaled by few. But in order for that to happen, they had to be shown that continued resistance meant certain death.
Today we face a similar enemy, one which is going to stab and slice us to death a pinprick at a time if we don't put an end to it, and I really doubt anything less dramatic is going to accomplish that.
And yes, I know how inspecific and wishful "the area" and "the innocents" sound. Who decides where the first "area" is and who the "innocents" are? Well, I'll take a stab at it. Fallujah. Make it glow.
posted by Mr. Lion @ 23:11 hours | comments (8)
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