Human, all too human
Tuesday, February 25th, 2003 01:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robinturnerA writer for The Texas Mercury, Bob Weir has the quaintly named column "Weir Only Human". In it he writes:
"How do you fight an enemy that is willing to die in order to kill you? You kill them first. Saddam is endeavoring to obtain nuclear weapons and the ability to launch them against us. Those who say he wouldn’t do so because he knows we’d wipe him out are perhaps forgetting that he might not give a rat’s patootie about dying if he could go down in Islamic history as the man who crippled the “infidels” of Western Civilization. In the final analysis, the very idea that there’s a question of whether he would or he wouldn’t should be enough to motivate us to replace him. We simply can’t afford to hang our hat on the razor-thin margin between Saddam’s fear of reprisal and his maniacal quest for immortality."
I am once again appalled by the ignorance of American media pundits. Of course, Saddam is a nasty dictator. He is also a secular, nationalist dictator, who probably doesn't believe in the herafter, and only turned against the USA because after giving him implicit permission to invade Kuwait, they bombed the hell out of him. When the hand that feeds you suddenly slaps you, why not bite it?
"How do you fight an enemy that is willing to die in order to kill you? You kill them first. Saddam is endeavoring to obtain nuclear weapons and the ability to launch them against us. Those who say he wouldn’t do so because he knows we’d wipe him out are perhaps forgetting that he might not give a rat’s patootie about dying if he could go down in Islamic history as the man who crippled the “infidels” of Western Civilization. In the final analysis, the very idea that there’s a question of whether he would or he wouldn’t should be enough to motivate us to replace him. We simply can’t afford to hang our hat on the razor-thin margin between Saddam’s fear of reprisal and his maniacal quest for immortality."
I am once again appalled by the ignorance of American media pundits. Of course, Saddam is a nasty dictator. He is also a secular, nationalist dictator, who probably doesn't believe in the herafter, and only turned against the USA because after giving him implicit permission to invade Kuwait, they bombed the hell out of him. When the hand that feeds you suddenly slaps you, why not bite it?
