Posted by
crosspatch on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 5:02:29 PM
A story appearing on Reuters today has me enraged. Terrorists in Iraq are now using children in car bombs to appear less threatening and get through checkpoints without close inspection. But the real horror is that the drivers are leaving the vehicles and allowing the children to be blown up with the vehicle.
I am the father of two small children who are taught to respect their elders. That adults would abuse the natural trust a child has in an adult as a figure of authority in order to transit a checkpoint is bad enough but that the adults would not even bother to save the children from slaughter when the bomb exploded is an unspeakable horror in any culture. This crime defies any justification on any terms by anyone. There is absolutely no justification anyone can give for it.
As far as I am concerned, it is time to break out the flame throwers. We are not fighting civilized human beings with an ideological goal, we are fighting animals who would slaughter babies. All restraint can now be taken off. These animals must be wiped off the face of the earth.
I have nothing more to say.