Friday, November 25, 2005

Evil SoBs

I don't post very much on the evilness of the bad guys in Iraq. I don't see a need to. We know the stories and they speak for themselves. And the right wing makes sure that every nuance of their badness is discussed ad nauseam. (This is usually part of an attempt at post facto moral justification for the war.)

But this story seemed to deserve a post. Bombing women and children at a toy distribution? Jesus, how cosmically, irredemably twisted do you have to be before that seems like a good idea?

I'm so outraged at our betrayal--and the betrayal of the Iraqi people--by our dishonest and incompetent administration that I seldom take the time to note what I simply presuppose to be patently obvious: that many of these guys we're fighting are very, very bad people.

But you know that.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Given that this is true, what does it mean and what does it justify?

This is not snark. There are very, very bad people all over. Some were born and some were created, and some we don't know about and never will. Iraqi insurgents, regardless of their national origin, seem to fit in the last category.

So...if we decide that killing the worst of the worst is somehow a worthwhile goal (I don't, but let's assume), do the folks in Iraq qualify to be on the list? I don't know.

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