Why the Islamists aren’t like the Soviets…
This is the nature of the enemy we face.
On January 15, 2002, Arafat himself, during a PA televised message to children, told them, “Is it not the greatest message to the world, when a child dies for Allah?”
I hope that you’ve just spent the past minute staring at the screen, slack-jawed and unable to think, just as I did when I first read that. Back in the bad old days of the Cold War, Sting wrote a song called “Russians”, in which he hoped there wouldn’t be a nuclear war. His argument was “It’s such an ignorant thing to do, if the Russians love their children too.”
And he was right. That doesn’t apply this time. If the Islamists love their children, it is a perverted and disgusting type of love that would rather see the child blown to bits instead of growing up.
I don’t even know if there is an antidote for this poison.