The Discerning Texan

All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
Thursday, August 19, 2004

On Sparing Islamic Shrines

Lt. Col. Ralph Peters writes a column in the New York Post which suggests that it is our own moral cowardice which have allowed radical Islamists to use mosques as cover for their terrorist activity (you will recall also that Islamists occupied the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem recently, and caused significant damage to the site...). While it is no question that Najaf is a sticky situation, and fighting appears to have started there again today, not one soldier should die because we are afraid of doing what we have to do to end this situation. Sure, there might be an outcry if the mosque is damaged significantly; but it would be foolish for the Iraqi authority to allow al Sadr to stay there, armed and killing American soldiers, and in general sabotaging the Iraqi government's authority. And taking care of this now will send a message to other Islamist cowards who hide behind their holy sites.
DiscerningTexan, 8/19/2004 07:12:00 AM |