June 22, 2006

The True Nature of the Enemy

Do you want to know what kind of enemy we are fighting in Iraq, then go read this dispatch from Michael Yon who paid his own way and embedded with the Deuce-Four Infantry regiment in Mosul last year.

He gives you an example of how ruthless the enemy is, and for those who view these terrorists as freedom fighters, there is no excuse for these acts upon the innocent.

Brave Men and Demons


No matter how a person feels about the war in Iraq, or the rationale for having started it, or how it was managed, or whether or not we should be there still, it is increasingly clear that some how, some way, despite the inertia of history and the fickle meddling of politics, progress is being made in the most unlikely of places. But epic progress is costly.

On average, we lose several soldiers each day in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our people who fight in these lands face an often savage enemy. How else to describe people who resort to barbarism to assert a claim to power for which their very barbarism declares them unfit? If cutting off a child’s head will get attention for thirty seconds, they’ll do it. If cutting out a child’s intestines and sticking a bomb in her belly to kill her mom or dad will send a message of fear to other moms and dads, they’ll do it. Sometimes, the children are just convenient cover:

Go read it all.

He is correct when he writes:

We did not create this evil, although it does reveal itself more sharply by comparison in the presence of decent people. When the tactics of an enemy cross the line, sentient peoples recognize that they are no longer entitled to be called opposing forces, insurgents, freedom fighters, revolutionaries, or Jihadists — they are terrorists.


If you think those soldiers got what they deserved in Iraq over the weekend, because they were murderous occupiers then there is truly no hope for you and no place for you in this society. It is courage we need now to stand against the devil your cowardice is only a hindrance to our success

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