Perspective, please....

 

 

"Waterboarding or beheading? Which is torture? These days, with this enemy, everything should be on the table..."

Well the events last week and going into this week tells an interesting story. What story? The story on American perspective these days. Last week we had a front page splash on just about every newspaper in the country. It was a story on the rendition and enhanced interrogation techniques used after the 9/11 attacks. However, we are not going to use those terms anymore. The Democrats, as well as the main stream media, much prefer "torture".

To put some perspective into last week's and so far this week's events, I will offer some bullet points:

• Waterboarding - Unlike the Japanese and other countries who in war would water board prisoners until death by drowning, the handful of people who were water boarded after the 9/11 attacks all lived. They were in a prone position, one their backs with their feet elevated higher than their heads. This ensured no water would go into the lungs.
• Beheadings- Last week it was disclosed the beheadings of children continue in the Middle East. In particular, Christian children. Four more children were beheaded for refusing to deny Christ. Who did this heinous act? Muslim terrorists. The outcry from the Democrats and the main stream media? Still waiting.
• Australia - The city of Sydney, which prides itself on being cosmopolitan and peaceful, proved itself a tempting target for a Muslim extremist early Monday morning. Two innocent people, in their prime of life, were killed by this lunatic.
• Pakistan - Last night (our time), a school was overrun by the Taliban in Pakistan. This was a school that was attended by the children of Pakistani Army Officers. Right now the death count is just under 100, with most of them being children. Other children are being held hostage right now.
• Drones - I am okay with us using drones. However, the hypocrisy of the drone lovers and water board haters is almost amusing. Many drones are equipped with Hellfire missiles. They are anti-tank missiles. They are very lethal and can cause significant collateral damage. Somehow the fact that we have incinerated innocent people (children included) that happened to be in the vicinity of a bad guy we have targeted, passes the sniff test. Perspective? Two terrorists have died in rendition "black sites" overseas since the 9/11 attacks. Hundreds, maybe thousands, have died in drone attacks.

Someday the world is going to wake up to our new reality. We have an enemy, not by our choosing, who is the baddest of the bad. They practice no rules, they have no scruples, and they show no mercy. Videos have been on the internet showing them killing babies in the most gruesome fashion. They have behead children, and then display the heads on stakes. They bury people alive. They lucky ones get shot in the head. They are bold in their actions, and as we have seen on 9/11, they will stop at nothing to get to us.

We can continue to take these extremists lightly, or we can treat them like a cancer which is spreading. As we have seen in the chocolate house in Australia, or the school in Pakistan, soft targets are becoming more common. And free societies (like ours), have plenty of soft targets to choose from.