Evil Marches On

Taliban murderers have slaughtered ten international aid workers, including six Americans, who left the safety and comfort of their homes to try and improve the vision of impoverished Afghans. These angels of mercy were martyred because evidently among their possessions were their Bibles (according to the semi-literate Taliban who generally if they can read at all, cannot recognize a single tome besides the Koran- to the Taliban, a medical book might be misconstrued as Holy Writ). So, these aid workers supposedly carried the "word of God" which is so powerful to the Afghan people who are evidently so loosely tied to their Islamic faith that the mere presence of texts with the real Revealed Word would turn their heads and turn them from their heathen path into insta-Christians. And for this and Taliban-alleged "spying", these hands of help are severed. The hearts and minds campaign in Afghanistan is a joke. The Afghan people will never love us, but rest assured with the vast array of wondrous weapons at our disposal, we can make them fear us sufficiently that like post-Nagasaki Japan, they would not lift a hand against a foreigner for generations. We should make an example of the area where the medical missionaries were massacred, with leaflets (pictorial as there throwbacks do not read by in large in any language) and loudspeakers on aircraft broadcasting the message that all non-combatants must leave within two weeks with whatever their possessions and livestock that they do not want to be obliterated, and in a fortnight, perform a nuclear atmospheric test over the village where the aid workers died. This lesson would be highly instructive to all Afghans and other Islamist militants the world over and would send a clear message to neighboring Iran as well about American resolve. But Barack Hussein Obama would never contemplate such an action that would actually intimidate the enemy enough that we would win the conflict and end the war, instead Obama is content to continue the perpetual bloodbath of our "proportional response" to their terrorist outrages until we are bled pale enough that we abandon our aims and the area having lost the will to thwart the true ugly human face of ultimate evil.