Not all Americans walking on air over Zarqawi's expungement
Waking up to the news that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been killed was like Christmas come early. Seeing pictures of his bloated dead face nearly brought tears of joy to my eyes. I was simply walking on air all day.
But amazingly, and perhaps predictably, there are those dwelling amongst us here in the civilized world who aren’t happy about Zarqawi’s demise. One of them is American antiwar activist Michael Berg, whose son Nick Berg was allegedly beheaded by Zarqawi himself. In a statement pertaining to the death of Zarqawi, Berg said, “The death of every human being is a tragedy. How could a human being be glad that another human being is dead?â€
Well, when the dead human being was a mass-murdering, head-hacking maniac who wanted to take a large swath of the planet back to the seventh century, being glad comes pretty naturally to most people — unless, of course, their brains have been rendered partially inoperable by far left ideology.
Here’s another telling excerpt from Berg’s statement: “He (Zarqawi) has a family who reacts just as my family reacted when Nick was killed, and I feel badly for that. I feel doubly badly because Zarqawi was a political figure and his death will re-ignite another wave of revenge.â€
He feels badly for Zarqawi’s family? If I had a family member like Zarqawi, I’d be thrilled to hear he had been stopped by whatever means it took. If there’s an ounce of decency in them, Zarqawi’s family should also be glad. However, if they admired the things he did, then they are probably delirious with joy over his glorious martyrdom, believing that he is in paradise right now being ravished by voluptuous virgins and patted on the back by Allah himself.
As for re-igniting “another wave of revenge,†it’s not about revenge. It’s about Zarqawi and his ilk trying to turn Iraq into a seventh century theme park, replete with theocratic totalitarianism and state-sanctioned beheadings as common as traffic citations.
This kind of Bergian attitude represents another major problem for the civilized world. It makes it tough to effectively fight terrorism when throughout the Western world there are so many like Berg who are seemingly unable to differentiate between, on the one hand, the worth of a good life and, on the other hand, the worth of a life spent doing evil, and then make value judgements accordingly. When it comes to the death of someone like Zarqawi, how can any sentient and moral human being not be glad?
Berg also said that despite what Zarqawi did to his son, he’s not interested in revenge. That’s very noble. But would it be too untoward for Berg to at least be glad for all the innocent people who will now get to go on living because they won’t be murdered by Zarqawi?
No one thinks the fighting is going to suddenly end now that Zarqawi is dead, but maybe there will at least be an opportunity for things to improve. One thing’s certain. If it were up to the Michael Bergs of the world, the Zarqawis of the world would lord over everything because there would be no one to oppose them. I wonder how Berg would enjoy living in that world.
Greg Strange provides conservative commentary with plenty of acerbic wit on the people, politics, events and absurdities of our time. See more at his website: http://www.greg-strange.com/
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