Posted by
Bert Chapman on Monday, January 16, 2012 7:45:26 PM
There has been a lot of hysteria by the chattering classes about recent revelations that U.S. Marine Corps personnel were videotaped urinating on the corpses of dead Taliban terrorists. While such action by our forces is not professional and will undergo military adjudication, it needs to be kept in perspective. War is hell and unpleasant things happen while it is being conducted. Lets take a few minutes to consider the nature of the enemy we are fighting in Afghanistan. The Taliban imposed a sadistic medieval style tyranny over Afghanistan repressing women, requiring men to wear beards, prohibiting music, closing schools, and seeking to kill anyone who did not conform to their worldview. The Taliban sheltered Al Qaida enabling them to launch the 9/11 terrorist attacks from Afghanistan and other terrorist operations against the U.S. and its allies. They continue to fight a tenacious and aggressive war against the current Afghan government and against U.S. and ISAF allies who are seeking to create a relative semblance of stability so Afghanistan can stand on its feet and have a chance to be a somewhat normal country.
Did Al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists show sensitivity to any of their victims in Afghanistan and all corners of the world? Of course, not! Did Islamist terrorists show sensitivity to their victims during the 1972 Munich Olympic bombings, the 1983 Beirut Marine Corps barracks bombing, attacks against civilians in London, Madrid, and Bali, murdering U.S. military contractors in Fallujah, Iraq, and attacks against their fellow co-religionists in Iraq and other areas of the Islamic world? Absolutely not! We must reject the delusional morally relativistic notion that Islamist terrorists are entitled to the protections of international law and human decency and exterminate them like the pathological vermin they are. No matter how much we kid ourselves with cosmopolitan fantasies, these individuals are not like us, do not want to be treated like us, and will never become like us. Only until the perversion of Islamist terrorism is exterminated, along with the evil seeds that produce it, will anti-American and anti-democratic Islamic forces be entitled to a modicum of human respect.