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Tuesday, August 19, 2003
posted by gbarto at 6:26 PM:
20 Killed in Blast at U.N. in BaghdadTruck bomb takes off entire corner of hotel used as HQ in Iraqi capital; top U.N. official, one American among dead
And so the killing continues. But there's one thing we don't have to worry about. These f-ers won't do a goddamn thing to ameliorate the lot of the Iraqi people - they had 30 years to do that and spent the time putting up Saddam posters and putting down those who sought freedom.
It's a damn shame about the UN. One wonders if that lot of malcontents will finally come to understand that Arabism is not about a desperate plea for understanding from the oppressed and downtrodden but is, like every murderous movement, the work of an upper middle class with the means to acquire materiel and enough of a taste of power to crave more. Whether they give the poor the "privilege" of spilling blood for a chance to change masters or not is a matter of tactics, not philosophy, for all such men are evil, unfeeling to all save their own taste for more power and more control. While the TurkeyBlog of course regrets the loss of all human life and every last soul, he has to confess to a more primal hope that the guy who put that truck in the lobby went with it and an equally fervent hope that those who financed him will see the remainder of their existence mired in the excruciating boredom of a nice small cell in which to contemplate how little Allah really has done to come to the aid of a movement whose only triumph in the face of Western power has been to find a way to hole away undetected not unlike the rats to whom they could be related if only the plagues they spread weren't so much more invidious to what Allah surely wanted for His people.
Saddam and a few fellows may yet die natural deaths, as may some of the other cowards who send know-nothings to die in their stead, but - and we can take satisfaction in this - their lot will either kill Islam or force it to move beyond the 12th century. So, today, a battle lost. But an uglier face still on a religion of peace which has as much to answer for as did Christianity in the wake of the sack of Constantinople.
While we're at it, one more presumed triumph from the religion of peace:
Two Groups Claim Israel Bombing
Attack kills at least 20, wounds 100
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