June 22, 2004
This Was, Of Course, Inevitable
I hadn't realized, and just found out at Michele's and Jeff's, that South Korean abductee Kim Sun-il had been beheaded by his Muslim (!) captors.
I'm not going to rant. The maelstrom surrounding my last rant was painful to me in that, although between Andy's site and mine many words were exchanged, the two I didn't see much of were Paul Johnson. Hell, I didn't even use them myself.
I will say I don't think Kim Sun-il, a Korean, represented Western Civilization, or America, or Israel. He was just a fellow doing a job. Which means there are no root causes to flesh out here. Just plain simple terror. Plain simple evil.
If any good can come from such heinous deeds it is, to me, the fact that the terror fiends have foolishly opened a new front in the War. Those 3,000 South Korean soldiers will deploy to Iraq, and with steely resolve to be sure. Perhaps when East meets West over the charred ruins of the Middle East we can look back, and be grateful a large band of lunatics, deceased, finally brought Occident and Orient together in common cause.