January 10, 2007

Somalia : Lefties Unhinged

TalkLeft wonders:

...do we just believe we can go anywhere in the world and kill people because they might be al-Qaida followers?
If by "we," you mean the U.S. military, the answer, of course, is "yes." Most Americans believe the U.S. military is capable of going pretty much anywhere in the world and killing just about anyone. But that's not really the question. The question is: should the U.S. military kill people in war zones who they have good reason to believe to be key al-Qaeda agents? Spending too long pondering questions like this one is exactly the kind of activity that kept the Democrats from taking out Osama back in the 1990s. If we continually pass up opportunities to take out our enemies' leadership, we deserve to lose this war.

This Kossack is convinced it's all just for show:

The notion that we have any idea of whatever structure something called "al Qaeda" may have, sufficient to be able to ID who's in charge of what, is laughable. The idea that some notional "our man in Modagishu", ever alert for these key al Qaeda operatives that our expertise has identified, and probably circulates packs of playing cards with their pictures, spotted our intended target and dogged his footsteps to the Kenyan border to call in this airstrike, is ludicrous. I doubt that even the con men in charge of the whole operation believe that they have any idea who or what may have been at ground zero of those smoking holes. The only thing one can be confident of from this report, is that there would be no report were there not a need for some positive news of progress in the GWOT on the eve of Our Leader's inspiring speech outlining the Glorious Way Forward. Onward, to ever more and larger smoking holes, in ever more countries! The brown people will get the message sooner or later.
The Kossack fantasizes about killing Republicans with an AC-130 gunship, but laments that he wouldn't know who to kill:
I have been a keen observer of the US political scene my entire adult life, and I wouldn't have any idea who in the Republican political machine to send the AC-130s after, or any confidence that knocking off any or all of them would improve the world, despite an utter confidence that they have fucked up the world mightily.

By Ragnar Danneskjold, Typical Bitter Gun-Clinger at 02:49 AM | |