A service man's apology.
For good and ill, the Iraqi prisoner abuse mess will remain an
issue. On the one hand, right thinking Americans will abhor the stupidity
of the actions while on the other hand, political glee will take control and
fashion this minor event into some modern day My Lai massacre.
I heard some Arabs and Muslims are asking for an apology. I humbly
offer mine here:
I am sorry that the last seven times we Americans took up arms and
sacrificed the blood of our youth, it was in the defense of Muslims (Bosnia,
Kosovo, Gulf War 1, Kuwait, etc.). I am sorry that no such call for an
apology upon the extremists came after 9/11. I am sorry that all of the
murderers on 9/11 were Islamic Arabs. I am sorry that most Arabs and
Muslims have to live in squalor under savage dictatorships. I am sorry that
their leaders squander their wealth. I am sorry that their governments
breed hate for the US in their religious schools, mosques, and
government-controlled media.
I am sorry that Yasir Arafat was kicked out of every Arab country
and hijacked the Palestinian "cause". I am sorry that no other Arab country
will take in or offer more than a token amount of financial help to those
same Palestinians. I am sorry that the USA has to step in and be the
biggest financial supporter of poverty stricken Arabs while the insanely
wealthy Arabs blame the USA for all their problems.
I am sorry that our own left wing elite, our media, and our own
brainwashed (from elements of our society like radical professors, CNN and
the NY TIMES) masses do not understand any of this.
I am sorry the United Nations scammed the poor people of Iraq out of
the "food for oil" money so they could get rich while the common folk
suffered. I am sorry that some Arab governments pay the families of
homicide bombers upon their death, but won't pay to help alleviate their
squalor and misery while alive. I am sorry that those same bombers are
brainwashed thinking they will receive 72 virgins in "paradise." I am sorry
that the homicide bombers think pregnant women, babies, children, the
elderly and other noncombatant civilians are all legitimate targets.
I am sorry that our troops die to free more Arabs from the gang rape
rooms and the filling of mass graves of dissidents of their own making. I
am sorry that Muslim extremists have killed more Arabs than any other group.
I am sorry that foreign trained terrorists are trying to seize
control of Iraq and return it to a terrorist state. I am sorry we don't
drop a few dozen Daisy cutters on Fallujah.
I am sorry every time terrorists hide they find a convenient "holy
site". I am sorry they didn't apologize for driving a jet into the World
Trade Center that collapsed and severely damaged Saint Nicholas Greek
Orthodox Church - one of our holy sites.
I am sorry they didn't apologize for flight 93 and 175, the USS
Cole, the embassy bombings, the murders and beheadings of Nick Berg and
Daniel Pearl, etc......etc!
I am sorry Michael Moore is American; he could feed a medium sized
village in Africa.
America will get past this latest absurdity. We will punish those
responsible because that is what we do. We hang out our dirty laundry for
all the world to see. We move on. That's one of the reasons we are hated
so much. We don't hide this stuff like all those Arab countries that are
now demanding an apology.
When most Americans saw this reported in the news, they thought of
the lost hundreds, of the still-vivid memories of savage butchery of our
people who were killed, mutilated and burnt amongst a joyous crowd of
celebrating Fallujans. But they still felt common human decency, and felt
compassion and outrage for the victims of abuse at Al Ghraib prison -- and
spoke out vociferously about it.
If you're awaiting an apology to those who gleefully butcher the
living then send a video of it around the world, or to those who murder
women and children non-combatants -- IN DIRECT VIOLATION OF WHAT THE QURAN
UNAMBIGUOUSLY DEMANDS -- you're going to have a long wait. You have a
better chance of finding those 72 virgins.
