Sunday, April 04, 2004

Kill the Children

We shouldn't do it, but, well, it'd sure be nice. From Kathleen Parker:

I suppose it would be considered lacking in nuance to nuke the Sunni Triangle.

But so goes the unanimous vote around my household - and I'm betting millions of others - in the aftermath of what forevermore will be remembered simply as "Fallujah."

Wouldn't it be lovely were justice so available and so simple? If we were but creatures like those zoo animals we witnessed gleefully jumping up and down after stomping, dragging, dismembering and hanging the charred remains of American civilians whose only crime was to try to help them


...ummm...just so I can provide the decoder ring to the wingnuts, let me suggest you consider the meaning of the word "unanimous."

...and, for more context, consider the thought process. We're considering nuking a city of 250,000 (and all the associated damage elsewhere) because four people were killed and desecrated. If this is really how millions think we're fucked.

But please, please, spare the embryos...