MartialIntent
Black Belt
While I certainly agree with your sentiment as nice in theory, how quickly we have forgot those perverse scenes of jubilation and exactly this "jumping up and down and shouting" you describe, that we all witnessed widespread across the middle east after the horrors of 9/11.upnorthkyosa said:I want you to imagine that you are a member of the village where Zarqawi was killed and that you personally know some of the innocent people who died. Perhaps they were your family members. And now you see Americans jumping up and down and shouting...
"GOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
How are you going to feel about this? I think its a good bet that it might very well be construed as negative!
The bottom line is that even though this may be a big step towards ending the war, an even bigger step, IMO, would be a little more sensitivity and a little less of the "ridem cowboy" hootin and hollarin.
I'm afraid for me there should be absolutely no compunction on the part of civilians like ourselves in *any* warring country to be sensitive towards their opponents - quite the opposite in fact, and especially since it would seem apparent by the continued hostilities towards allied troops out there and persistent "threats" of further actual jihad action here in the UK and elsewhere that they have no such empathy for us, our social liberties or our civil and personal rights.
Officially yes of course there are war treaties to be followed and there is certainly a precedent within many moral dictates to suggest we should hold more caring views of our enemies, but personally I think it's getting far too easy to abandon the "team" we should belong to for the sake of assuming some higher moral viewpoint [not you personally] over the mere proletariat; a part of which I'm absolutely unashamed to count myself.
Again I say, well done to those who had a hand in Zarquawi's assassination. This man was a highly committed indivudual; very driven to an eventual final outcome and I for one take heart in the fact that there will be no further orchestration by him personally in this already very damaging conflict.
Respects!