Let's talk about the children

Cross posted from Right Truth

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Most American children will get educations, get jobs, and contribute to their communities. Thank God for that. But what about children around the world, children of Muslim countries?

I'd like to share a little from Bookworm Room (hat tip Webloggin) "Man’s ingenuity" (emphasis mine)

One of the things that distinguishing humans from all other animals is their ingenuity. If you live in the West, that ingenuity is used to discover new vaccines, maximize crop harvests, invent computers, make beautiful communities, etc. If you live in the world of radical Islam, that ingenuity is used to create ever new forms of absolute evil, in conduct and in thought. Here’s Dennis Prager:

I never thought we could see a new form of evil. After the gas chambers of the Holocaust, the tens of millions murdered in the Gulag, the forced starvation in the Ukraine, the hideous medical experiments on people by the Germans and the Japanese in World War II, the torture chambers in all police states, I had actually believed that no new forms of evil existed. I was wrong.

Of course, for sheer cruelty, one cannot outdo the Nazis; no depiction of hell ever matched the reality of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. But while Islamists and Baathists in Iraq have not devised new forms of torture — there probably are no new ways left — they have devised a new form of evil: murdering, maiming and torturing as many innocents among their own people as possible.

I do not know of an analogous form of evil. When the Allies conquered Nazi Germany, disaffected Nazis did not go around murdering and cutting off the heads of fellow Germans in order to make the Allies leave. Nor did disaffected Japanese blow up Japanese students so as to make the American occupation of Japan untenable.

Here is the latest example of this new form of evil as reported by the Associated Press: “Maj. Gen. Michael Barbero, deputy director for regional operations on the Joint Staff, said . . . the vehicle used in the attack [on Iraqi civilians] was waved through a U.S. military checkpoint because two children were visible in the back seat. He said this was the first reported use of children in a car bombing in Baghdad. ‘Children in the back seat lowered suspicion, (so) we let it move through, they parked the vehicle, the adults run out and detonate it with the children in the back,’ Barbero told reporters in Washington.”

These same “insurgents” routinely blow up children who line up to receive candy from U.S. troops. Likewise, college students are targeted for death, as are men lining up to apply for civilian jobs, men and women attending mosques, physicians in hospitals, and so on. The more innocent the Iraqi, the more likely he or she is to be targeted for murder.

I submit that there was no way to anticipate this. And no one did. This includes all those who predicted a civil war in Iraq between Shiites and Sunnis. I include myself among those who predicted savagery in Iraq. On a number of occasions prior to our invasion of Iraq, I recounted to my radio listeners this chilling story:

As a young man, in 1974, I was riding on a bus traveling from Beirut to Damascus. The man I sat next to was an English-speaking Iraqi whom I asked at one point in our conversation, “Can you describe your nation in a sentence?” “No problem,” he immediately answered. “We Iraqis are the most barbaric people in the world.”

I obviously never forgot that man’s words, and therefore anticipated great cruelties in Iraq. But neither I nor anyone who predicted a civil war had so much as a premonition of this unprecedented mass murder of the men, women and children among one’s own people as a military tactic to defeat an external enemy.

Killing one's own children, a neighbor's children, ... children that should grow up to be contributing members of their society, used as if they had no more value than a stick of explosives. And it's not just in Iraq. We have reported here many times on the indoctrination of children from infancy by Hezbollah, Hamas, and other Islamic terror groups. Just this month video was released of a toddler, barely old enough to walk properly, with a suicide belt on. What comment can be made that would adequately describe how vile this is? I don't have the words.

So American children are spoiled a little, they don't know how good they have it. Thank goodness they don't know of the horrors that children in other countries suffer. Shield them as long as you can.

Now that we see the enemy and we see the value they put on life, someone please make Washington politicians understand what we are up against. Make them get off their lazy butts, quit haggling over whether to fund out troops, quit spending all their time trying to investigate whether someone remembered what they said when, and let's whip this enemy. Does Nancy Pelosi want the enemy over here, blowing OUR children up?