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December 03, 2005

05:12 AM - Prince of Peace v. Sword of Truth

According to the Christian Peacemaker Teams’ website, just prior to the war against the Baathist regime, they journeyed to Iraq in order to “support the UN Weapons Inspection Program as an alternative to war” and “expose the injustice and deaths from the US-led economic sanctions.” Had they prevailed at the time, not only would the maniacal former dictator (currently in the dock) and his former minions (currently waging insurgency) continue to this day in their established pattern of exploitation, domination, torture, rape, and murder of the Iraqi people, but they would even now be reconstituting their defunct weapons programs, a task greatly eased by the lifting of international sanctions. The U.N. inspection process, of course, would remain as toothless as ever. Bearing this in mind, consider the unintentional but unarguable irony of the following statement issued by the CPT after the kidnappings: “We are angry because what has happened to our team-mates is the result of the actions of the US and UK government due to the illegal attack on Iraq and the continuing occupation and oppression of its people.” Now, I’m an enthusiastic fan of tragic irony, but this is laying it on a bit too thickly even for my jaded palate. These pacifists have laid the blame for these events not upon those directly responsible (kidnappers who counted CPT members among the so-called crusaders that the CPT opposed) nor upon their own stated policy of “getting in the way” in “crisis situations and militarized areas around the world,” but rather upon the Free Men of the West endeavoring to liberate Iraq from its decades-long oppression. Not content with such a brazen display of unrepentant bigotry, they go on to characterize the liberators as the oppressors, thus proving that freedom is slavery in the eyes of those for whom ignorance is strength, and no statement too Orwellian for the enemies of democracy. Update - December 06, 2005 Accordingly to a sympathetic blog, the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades have asked "the kidnappers to release those hostages in order for them to go back and stand by the side of justice and peace, and by the side of the persecuted nations, notwithstanding the actions of their governments who are directly responsible for all the violence in the region." Talk about strange bedfellows! Christian pacifists and Islamic militants have united against the American religious right's backing of the Iraqi secular left. Mind-buggering stuff... Technorati Tags: Iraqi Freedom,CPT

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