The destiny of all terrorists.
Fox News has ongoing coverage. (*)
US troops have destroyed a massive illegal weapons warehouse in Fallujah, Iraq with fire from AC-130 Spectre gunships. The destruction of the Fallujah nest of terrorists is apparently now going forward. If the terrorists wish to negotiate, they will have to throw down their weapons and surrender.
Furthermore, the Coalitional Provisional Authority has repeatedly stated that al-Sadr’s illegal militia in Najaf and elsewhere will be “destroyed.”
The terrorist insurgency in Iraq is going to meet its inevitable future, its destiny: complete and abject failure to stop the rebirth of Iraq as a free nation; and the destruction of the terrorists themselves.
The only way for terrorists to survive is to quit being terrorists.
Update: 29 July 2004. Democratic VP candidate John Edwards gave a message in a speech yesterday to “al Qaida and the rest of these terrorists. You cannot run. You cannot hide. And we will destroy you.” (†) It’s a relief that the sentiment of destroying all the terrorists is finally becoming mainstream.
April 28th, 2004 at 06:36
The End
Andrew Hagen writes of the destiny of all terrorists. I hope he’s right. I wonder at times if we truly…
April 29th, 2004 at 10:36
Terrorism has been redefined. Iraq is still a war zone and the Mahdi Army appear to be Iraqi soldiers to me, not Al Qaeda but Shiite militia. To call them terrorists seems illigitimate. In WW2 France, French resistance were not necessarily French. The Mahdi Army may be stupid, but in their own minds they are enacting the preaching of their religious leader that military occupation in their holy cities is an obscenity and the continued assault by US forces proves them correct in the minds of Iraqi people. So, who it is that history sees as committing terrorism may be a matter of political bias. I am interested to know what makes them terrorists to you?
May 27th, 2004 at 11:27
The enemy in Iraq includes a few Baathist holdouts and a lot of foreign fighters. There just aren’t many Iraqis who are still actively fighting us.
Regardless of whether Al-Sadr’s “mehdi army” was composed of Iranians or indigenous Iraqis, the recent agreement to dismantle his militia constitutes a major Coalition victory. Al-Sadr’s support amongst Shiites has dropped in recent weeks from sporadic and lukewarm to rare and cold.
Unfortunately, the Fallujah situation has not worked out quite as well, but even in that restless city things are relatively peaceful currently. We need to be patient and optimistic.