WHAT’S ALL THE FUSS?
I got an email tonight. In general I support the author. If you need the author’s name I will be pleased to provide it.
— From email —
Subject: Fw: I don’t care!!!
Subject: STRONG WOMAN!
Could not have said this any better myself! Especially today - The lady that wrote this letter is Pam … in Atlanta. She’s been in business since 1980 doing interior design and home planning. She recently wrote a letter to a family member serving in Iraq. Read it!
WHAT’S ALL THE FUSS?
“Are we fighting a war on terror or aren’t we? Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001? Were people from all over the world, mostly Americans, not brutally murdered that day, in downtown Manhattan, as well as across the Potomac from our nation’s capitol and in addition a field in Pennsylvania? Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning or crushing death that day, or didn’t they?
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And I’m supposed to care that a copy of the Koran was “desecrated” when an overworked American soldier kicked it or got it wet? Well, I don’t.
I don’t care at all!
I’ll start caring when Osama bin Laden turns himself in and repents for incinerating all those innocent people on 9/11.
I’ll care about the Koran when the fanatics in the Middle East start caring about the Holy Bible, the mere possession of which is a crime in Saudi Arabia.
I’ll care when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi tells the world he is sorry for hacking off Nick Berg’s head while Berg screamed through his gurgling, slashed throat.
I’ll care when the cowardly so-called “insurgents” in Iraq come out and fight like men instead of disrespecting their own religion by hiding in mosques.
I’ll care when the mindless zealots who blow themselves up in search of nirvana (or Allah’s Paradise) care about the innocent children within range of their suicide bombs.
I’ll care when the American media stops pretending that their First Amendment liberties are somehow derived from international law instead of the United States Constitution’s Bill of Rights.
I’ll care when judges stop ordering my government to release photos of the abuses at Abu Ghraib, which are sure to set off the Islamic extremists just as Newsweek’s lies did a few weeks ago.
In the meantime, when I hear a story about a brave marine roughing up an Iraqi terrorist to obtain information, know this: I don’t care.
When I see a fuzzy photo of a pile of naked Iraqi prisoners who have been humiliated in what amounts to a college hazing incident, rest assured that I don’t care.
When I see a wounded terrorist get shot in the head when he is told not to move because he might be booby-trapped, you can take it to the bank that I don’t care.
When I hear that a prisoner, who was issued a Koran and a prayer mat, and fed “special” food that is paid for by my tax dollars, is complaining that his holy book is being “mishandled,” you can absolutely believe in your heart of hearts that I don’t care.
And oh, by the way, I’ve noticed that sometimes it’s spelled “Koran” and other times “Quran.” Well, Jimmy Crack Corn and — you guessed it — I don’t care!”
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— Email ends —
Thanks, Amanda and Pam!
I wonder that no one has explained to the Islamic extremists that no one goes to heaven if they take an innocent (innocent by God’s definition) with them. But I can see why that would not be in a training manual for suicide bombers.
My own personal feelings are that US troops are in Iraq because of orders, their oath to defend our constitution, and they are being responsible adults. The description of their mission, the details about why they were sent, or how it will be decided to end the mission there is the responsibility of the US Government, mostly in offices in Washington, D.C. Of course, the government decision makers are acting according to their oath to defend our constitution, the obligations they accepted when they took their jobs, and because they are accepting adult responsibility.
There are groups of US citizens that criticize the decision to take on the Iraq problem. Some of them also feel they are being responsible and adult, although many of their detractors have read history and are aware of the hazards of historical disasters recurring when you fail to heed the lessons of the past.
Back 30 years ago when I joined the US Navy there was a questionaire — do you now, or have you ever belonged to a group that advocates the violent overthrow of the US Government? Apparently this simple question conflicts today with the Bill Of Rights protection of religious beliefs. I am astounded that there are militant Islamists in the US uniformed services. It seems such an obvious danger. That also goes for anyone applying for visa or any other permission to enter the US — if you believe in violence against the US Government we should be able keep you away from our shores. Or send you home (or away, and quickly) if you are visiting and your violent passions carry you beyond polite society.
What was it, the early 1800’s, that the US government and vigilante citizens of the US were attacking and killing members of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, the Mormons? I haven’t read anywhere that anyone really tried to punish the aggressor Christian congregations or clergy. Note how that ended — The Mormons were driven into the wilderness (Utah, Western United States) and isolated for many years, then required to change their religion. If I find the tactics of the Islamics similar to the approach ‘mainstream’ America took with the Mormons, please forgive me. The Islamic approach seems to be ‘let’s kill the infidel/unbelievers until we drive them away from *our* homes’. Wow.
So if the US Government figures there is reason for our troops to be affecting the world in the Iraq/Afghanistan region — Thanks. And a big thanks to all the uniformed services people at home and abroad. Stand strong.
Brad Kruse
Ponca City, OK