New Noise

Quite a weekend for the terrorists. Shootings, bombings, mayhem galore. Lots of death made. They're so good at that. I can imagine many thinking we ought to "rethink" (read: cut and run from) our role in Iraq. Can't do it, folks. That's what they expect us to do. They expect us not to be able to take it. They expect us to cry and find our wiggle-way out. We have to prove them wrong.


Perhaps these words sound childish to you. They are. Adults know that not every fight is worth fighting, that some fools who think wrong of you can be safely left to their foolishness. Children don't know that, because it isn't true for them: being thought a weakling or a fool in childhood invites being attacked, physically and verbally, by those who wish to prove that they aren't. It's a similar dynamic in prisons.


Now ask yourselves, who do our self-exploding Islamofascist brothers more resemble: sober adults or terrified children? How shall we deal with such?