FALLUJAH

Probably the biggest story this week was the vicious, inhuman, barbaric attack on the four American contractors in Fallujah. I don’t have to go into the details on the attack, everyone knows them by now.

First of all, it’s obvious that these people are animals. I mean, they are sub-human, literally. And what I mean by “these people” are the beasts that did this and the people that support them. Do I mean all Muslims? No, I don’t think so. Of course, it does seem like Muslims do things like this pretty regularly. Suicide bombing comes to mind. But, that isn’t supposed to be talked about, all people are equal, no society is better than another, yadda, yadda, yadda.

The part of this story that is not being reported on is what didn’t happen. No retaliation, no overwhelming response. In a testimony to the greatness of the United States, there was no vengeful retaliation. Not that there wasn’t a call for one from some of the more irrational in this country, but the military ignored the crazies. In cultures less advanced than ours, like the ones the Fallujians want, attacks like this wouldn’t be tolerated. The Nazi’s used to pick ten civilians for every soldier killed and shot them. Remember Tiananmen square? That was purely peaceful, and the tanks were called in. Stalin killed people by the village full and then destroyed the village itself. Hollywood’s good buddy Castro just executed seventy or so people a few years ago. And let’s not forget the Fallujites buddy, Saddam. He gassed whole villages, he had dogs tear apart Generals who MIGHT not be loyal.

And what was the American response? Did we send in some B-1’s from Minot with MOAB’s for Fallujah? During the attack, reporters say the vermin danced for the cameras until an American jet screamed overhead, then they scattered back into their holes. Did the jet bomb and strafe the crowd? Did the marines send in the tanks nearby to decimate the people?

No.

The military that our resident war hero, Jane Kerry accused of war crimes held their fire because nothing would have been accomplished. The poor contractors were already dead and sending in the tanks would have caused many, many civilian casualties, put the Marines in unnecessary danger and inflamed the situation. That kind of response doesn’t do much to satiate the revenge desires, but it does accomplish more than just random killing.