Thursday, April 01, 2004
The murder of contractors in Iraq
If something like this had happened under a Saddam Hussein-style regime, the perpetrators would have been rounded up and publicly executed, their relatives tortured, and the entire city subject to random killing, if not destined for mass graves.
They can only DO something so grisly because Americans don't think that way, and they know that won't be the penalty.
Doesn't mean I wouldn't like to see the crowd of revelers tied to the ground and rolled over with steamrollers. Americans might not do that to people, but it doesn't mean they don't get pissed off when idiots do something to people whose only crime was to be involved in rebuilding the country so they can GIVE THE PLACE BACK.
If something like this had happened under a Saddam Hussein-style regime, the perpetrators would have been rounded up and publicly executed, their relatives tortured, and the entire city subject to random killing, if not destined for mass graves.
They can only DO something so grisly because Americans don't think that way, and they know that won't be the penalty.
Doesn't mean I wouldn't like to see the crowd of revelers tied to the ground and rolled over with steamrollers. Americans might not do that to people, but it doesn't mean they don't get pissed off when idiots do something to people whose only crime was to be involved in rebuilding the country so they can GIVE THE PLACE BACK.
