Gallant and Glorious

Nick Schifrin reported the latest terrorist outrage at the start of World News Tonight. He described the simultaneous attacks as "bold". Audie Murphy who faced two Italian tanks with a Tommy gun was bold. Ernie Pyle who went to war with a typewriter was bold. Assailing unarmed civilians in cafes, hotels, and wounded people in a hospital is not bold. Even the suicide bombers are not bold-they are just deluded. The practices of asymmetric warfare are not brave. I saw a drunk cold cock an eighty year old female tavern keeper once after she cut him off. Was he a hero? These people who capture a theater in Moscow or a school in Beslan are the lowest form of yellow this author knows of, and there is a deterrent no matter how distasteful. Let it be known that every member of their family or tribe will be hunted down when they are identified. They will be wiped from the face of the earth. Cherie Blair said she understood Palestinian suicide bombers some years back. I wonder if her empathy extended to the 7/7 bombers. It is sadly all too easy to find fanatics willing to slaughter others and sacrifice their own lives, but are they willing to put their entire family at risk?