Mecca and Medina: Another Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
August 5, 2007
Dear God, Allah, Jehovah, Shiva, Diana, Buddha, Mohammed, Gandhi, Mother Theresa and all the rest, does this actually make any sense to any one? Threatening to bomb the two holiest cities in the Muslim world in retaliation against a hypothetical terrorist attack??? Talk about putting your worst foot forward and then stuffing it into your mouth. The Republicans are really grasping for straws aren’t they? Threatening to kill a whole slew of innocent people in regard to the actions of a few is a bit much.
Yet another reason to call us *ugly Americans*. Fortunately, not all of us are ugly. War and violence pretty much suck no matter how you look at it. There are no winners or victories where either is concerned.
Are you referring to Tom Tancredo’s hypothetical?
Yep
It is tragic, no? The thing is, we have already done this. Medina was blasted and trampled repeatedly by ‘ugly’ Americans. French, Germans, British and Italians during the North African campaigns of World War II. This was a fight the Arabs never invited and their lands and their people were nothing more than strategic fodder for the ‘great’ Western powers.
No wonder they are pissed.
Oops! Pardon my language.