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May 04, 2005
Photo of the Year
In case you missed it, a photo taken in the aftermath of a recent attack on U.S. troops in Iraq:
Pardon My English writes:
This American soldier is cradling in his arms a dying child. An innocent child. Probably no more than five or six years old. He is a victim of those whose only true faith is the faith of death. This faith is islam. The "religion of peace".
This American soldier, doing his duty in a faraway land, brings forth the full throat of compassion in his deeds on behalf of this little child. He is bestowing the fullest measure of human kindness. A final act of tenderness. Perhaps the only true act of kindness this child has ever experienced in their brief life.
America and her gallant soldiers are often derisively referred to as warmongers. I would refer them again, to the words of General Douglas MacArthur.
"This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war."
The intellectually annointed will patiently, as if talking to little children, attempt to tell us that "one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter." How soothing those words must sound to someone comfortably ensconced in their university office.
(H/T: Michelle Malkin.)
Posted by bill at May 4, 2005 08:24 PM
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