abu musab al-seeyalater
i'm sure you've already heard that the US killed the most wanted terrorist in Iraq sometime last night, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. here is the AP article if you haven't already heard.2 things strike me as i read about this:
1) the US didn't mess around this time. they sent 2 F-15's to drop 500 pound bombs on his head. that's gangster...i heard bush talking about it and he actually said that at 6:15am yadda yadda that the US had "delivered justice". i was waiting for him to say "delivered justice...duh-byah style!"
2) i feel kinda bad for this guy. one the one hand, he deserves what he got. he deserves it for every person that he killed directly or indirectly. he deserves it because of the thousands of people in islam who he led astray with twisted philosphies and mindgames designed to enslave a people already without hope. but on the other hand, god's justice and wrath remain upon him for eternity, and the 500 pound bomb to the head ushered in an eternity of "weeping and gnashing of teeth" for him.
dare i say that i am mourning for this man? not in the traditional way of loss, but in a spiritual way?
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As I read the article, the thing that i could not get out of my head was the loss of a child. a child and a women was killed as well in the bombing. i have a feeling that becuase they are not american. it is written off. i was actually sad for that child, because he/she was made in God's image and did not deserve to die. i think we should mourn for that child as we mourn for the loss of children that may have died in the myc bombing. no less or more. so i did not celebrate too much. it is the reality of war that pablo's other blog was discussing. it dehumanizes people... even children.
Interesting reactions all around, and because the existence of war is less desirable than peace (but more desirable to surrendering and allowing the evil to win), we should be expected to have mixed feelings.
Somewhere today there is an F-16 crew and support team saying "Nothing but net - now it's Miller Time." I salute them; they did their job well. Read Tom Clancy's "Executive Orders;" the last chapter is stunningly similar. I wonder whether somewhere there's a John Clark and a Domingo Chavez quietly glad that one's over. Well, justice and a West Texas @$$ kicking have been delivered.
It is a loss that al-Zarqawi exited this life without finding Christ. He is now a soul eternally without hope. Yes, he's now beginning to get what he deserves, and he will be getting it for a long, long time to come. I hope that, because he is now gone and can kill no more, that hundreds will now not have their lives ended prematurely, and some of them will take advantage of that opportunity, and will come to the Lord before it is too late.
Where Zarqawi is now, I trust he ahs figured out that there are no virgins waiting for him. If the parable of the rich man and Lazarus is on point, then al-Zarqawi's ardent wish now is that those he left behind - those "who he led astray with twisted philosophies and mindgames designed to enslave a people already without hope," as Pableezy eloquently puts it - will now turn back, discover the true God, and not come to share the same eternal end that he has. If that's the case, then I hope that wish comes true.
He is lost, but I hope that good of eternal significance will come of it.
J-Lou sees the dead child with the eye of a good father. It is a deep sadness that a child has died. I fully expect the MSM to give that a lot of airtime. My sentiment, though, is that it is al-Zarqawi who is to blame for that poor child's loss. Someone who is one of the most hunted men on Earth makes everyone around him a target. It's no secret that the American military has the technology to reach out and touch someone anywhere and at any time. If al-Zarqawi was thinking that he was safe and America would never pull the trigger because he was hiding behind a child or another innocent bystander, then he can bear the guilt for that. It's a grievous loss; however, al-Zarqawi is the one who put the child in the line of fire.
By the way, getting Sheik Abdul Rahman in the deal makes this a twofer. It's like shopping at Payless - a bogo.
So I'm not celebrating, exactly. Better that there were no war; but we're not the ones who started this. God willing, we will end it. I'm happy and content that this mission was successful, saddened that al-Zarqawi is beyond the reach now of forgiveness, sadder still that he invited a child into the abyss with him.
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