02/13/2008 (6:37 pm)
Hezbollah Leader Killed in Car Bomb Blast
Imad Mughniyeh was killed by a car bomb in Damascus today. The rightward blogs are ecstatic; the leftward are silent. The consensus response seems to be, “May he rot in hell.” I’m not disagreeing, but my response is a bit more sober.
Mughniyeh was responsible for a remarkable laundry list of murders, including the Beirut barracks bombing in 1983. This description by CIA operative Robert Baer tells us more:
“He is the most dangerous terrorist we’ve ever faced. He is probably the most intelligent, most capable operative we’ve ever run across, including the KGB or anybody else. He enters by one door, exits by another, changes his cars daily, never makes appointments on a telephone, never is predictable. He only uses people that are related to him that he can trust. He doesn’t just recruit people. He is the master terrorist, the grail that we have been after since 1983.”
Solid reports from Michelle Malkin and Allahpundit on Hot Air. Malkin focuses on the response of the left, while Hot Air provides blow-by-blow detail from a variety of sources. Jawa Report has the list of terror incidents blamed on this man.
This is a major achievement by somebody (nobody knows who). The world is a better place tonight.
There is one place where the reflexive, insane moral equivalence of the multiculturalists actually makes a little sense, and that’s standing before God’s court. Some acts are much worse than others, yes, and some men seem much worse than others to us, but standing in front of the Holy One, none of us deserves mercy; every one of us deserves hell. I’m glad he’s out of circulation, and I hope there’s never another like him, but I’m saying: may God have mercy on his soul. And on all of ours.
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Comment by steve o reno
thank you for your thoughtful comments. I really like your blog. to badly paraphrase C.S. Lewis, the death penalty may be appropriate, may be necessary and may even be deserved, but we, as Christians, shouldn’t rejoice in it’s application, but rather mourn the fact that it’s come to this. We are all deserving of death. But perhaps to add an Orwellian twist like the pigs of Animal Farm, “some are more [deserving] than others”…
Comment by RM
Just commenting in general on your blog and its high caliber. I’ve enjoyed your comments on TH and find that this has even more depth.
In particular, I shared the opinion expressed in the piece on Newt’s theory of how much more we had in common as Americans than implacable differences. I have often felt this way but never really put it to words. As it happens most of my friends tilt left politically (in the NE this is a fact of geography). However, as much as we may differ politically, these are strong family people, many of whom I would trust with my life and my children. Most of them have NOTHING good to say about George Bush or the war in Iraq, but these are not people who want to live under Sharia law, and they don’t bristle when they drive by a church with a nativity scene (at least as far as I know). They are folks without huge agendas who for the most part are just trying to live their lives.
I never took it so far as to put it in terms of 85% with many shared basic values and 15% hard core leftists on the other side. I was fascinated with this and the percentages cited on specific issues. Whoulda thunk it?
Anyway, sorry to get so far off topic,but that entry really caught my attention, and I wanted to post to a more recent entry.
Have found TH great for the columns, but don’t particularly care about the way they degenerate into name calling as the comments roll on. Nothing wrong at all with pointed, sharp dialogue, butcalling someone you disagree with a libdolt isn’t likely to get you very far.
Thanks, sorry for being long winded.
Comment by Phil
Hi, RM, and welcome. No problem about the length, don’t sweat it.
I’m personally disappointed at the level of discourse on Townhall.com. The places I’ve found that provide more insightful commentary include Captain’s Quarters (http://www.captainsquartersblog.com), The Anchoress (http://theanchoressonline.com), and What’s Wrong With the World (http://www.whatswrongwiththeworld.net). The Anchoress tends toward Catholic issues about half the time, and WWWtW is intellectual, but Captain’s Quarters is down to earth without being pedestrian.
Did you visit Newt’s site and download his agenda?
Again, welcome.
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