A Head for a Head
There's been some good news for the war-makers recently. Our guys managed to bomb Al-Zarqawi and take him out. He deserved it -- a second rate thug making a name for himself. He especially deserved it for his ghastly propensity for decapitation. I have often thought about Mr. Nicholas Berg, sitting there with his hands tied behind his back. He seemed to me to be pretty confident that he could make it through if he played it cool. After all, he hadn't done anything against the Iraqi people. Then the asshole Zarqawi pulls out a big knife... I've never seen the entire video, and hope to never see it. I have since often wondered what would be going through one's mind as your head is being removed.

So that Zarqawi guy is gone. We don't like to boast, so we just took a big glossy picture after he was good and dead and showed it off in a ghoulish display. We dig that. Forgive me if I am unable to rejoice over-much in all of it. I am naturally resistant to anything that makes a war such as we have seem any more palatable.

I am always reminded of one of the reasons given for Noah's flood -- "The Earth was filled with violence..." God gave Noah time to round up some critters before he flushed and gave the human race a new lease on life. Still, Righteous Causes, Religious Wars, and Jihads continue; and the Earth is filled with violence.