Wednesday, July 13, 2005
More Suicide Bombings - Iraq, Israel, London
The New York Times reports that a suicide car bomber killed 27 people in Iraq today, 24 of them children. This attrocity joins similar ones of prior days and will be succeeded by others in the days to come. A suicide bomber struck in Israel yesterday, as they have in the past and will again. Jihadists have bombed innocent people in Spain, Kenya, Tanzania, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and many other countries.
The attack in London was horrendous just as the other terrorist attacks. The real issue is not to critique the degree of grieving we show toward the various bombings, but to find ways to end the terrorist attacks throughout the world.
The memory that most haunts me is that of the bombing of a Sbarro Pizza store in Israel because of a picture I saw of perhaps 10 or more baby carriages lined up outside the bombed out store. Excuse my saying so, but some animal intentionally walked into a pizza restaraunt to try to kill babies and their mothers who did nothing to them.
We don't need to parse the degree of our outrage and grief over the murders of innocents in London or Israel or Iraq. We need to stop the vicious killers. The war in Iraq is part of that process. It ended a safe haven Saddam had given Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups and stopped his financing of them.
Some may want to invoke the niceties of our criminal justice system to find and prosecute the jihadist involved in bombings. I'm sorry. The terrorists in London, Israel, Iraq and elsewhere are not simple criminals going about their individual crimes.
They are fighting a war to destroy our way of life. The sooner we recognize that reality and respond in kind, the better. We all need to recognize the courage of Iraqis, Israelis, Londoners and all of us in facing what are truly outrageous attacks on innocents. We all need to join together in fighting the global war on terror that manifests itself in Iraq, Israel, now London and who knows where tomorrow. These truly are serious times and they require serious people to combat the evil presented by the jihadists.
The time for petty partisan backbiting and second guessing is over. Democrats and Republicans need to join together in the fight against jihadist terrorists.
The attack in London was horrendous just as the other terrorist attacks. The real issue is not to critique the degree of grieving we show toward the various bombings, but to find ways to end the terrorist attacks throughout the world.
The memory that most haunts me is that of the bombing of a Sbarro Pizza store in Israel because of a picture I saw of perhaps 10 or more baby carriages lined up outside the bombed out store. Excuse my saying so, but some animal intentionally walked into a pizza restaraunt to try to kill babies and their mothers who did nothing to them.
We don't need to parse the degree of our outrage and grief over the murders of innocents in London or Israel or Iraq. We need to stop the vicious killers. The war in Iraq is part of that process. It ended a safe haven Saddam had given Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups and stopped his financing of them.
Some may want to invoke the niceties of our criminal justice system to find and prosecute the jihadist involved in bombings. I'm sorry. The terrorists in London, Israel, Iraq and elsewhere are not simple criminals going about their individual crimes.
They are fighting a war to destroy our way of life. The sooner we recognize that reality and respond in kind, the better. We all need to recognize the courage of Iraqis, Israelis, Londoners and all of us in facing what are truly outrageous attacks on innocents. We all need to join together in fighting the global war on terror that manifests itself in Iraq, Israel, now London and who knows where tomorrow. These truly are serious times and they require serious people to combat the evil presented by the jihadists.
The time for petty partisan backbiting and second guessing is over. Democrats and Republicans need to join together in the fight against jihadist terrorists.
# posted by Thomas A. Becket : 4:09 PM
