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Nick Berg’s father forgives Al Qaeda, but lashes out at Bush:
“My son died for the sins of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. This administration did this,” Berg said in an interview with radio station KYW-AM.
In the interview from outside his home in West Chester, Pennsylvania, a seething Michael Berg also said his 26-year-old son, a civilian contractor, probably would have felt positive, even about his executioners, until the last minute.
“I am sure that he only saw the good in his captors until the last second of his life,” Berg said. “They did not know what they were doing. They killed their best friend.”
I was sad to read this. A gang of terrorists kills his own son, and he expresses sympathy for them: “They did not know what they were doing. They killed their best friend.” If Berg senior wants to turn the other cheek, and not give himself over to rage, that may be healthy for him, and good-hearted. That may be a way for him to not be overwhelmed by this.
Given that Nick Berg was, in the words of his father, the “best friend” of Al Qaeda, and only wanted to do good for them, we are witnessing yet another indication that there is no opportunity to make the terrorists into our friends. They are not our friends; they don’t seek our friendship; they don’t even seek peace and prosperity for themselves and their loved ones. What they seek is to do as their culture teaches and celebrate death, by killing non-Muslims, specifically Americans.
Nick Berg, their friend, went to them with good thoughts and good wishes, and they killed him.
I guess Berg senior’s statement is the kind of lashing out anyone might do if they are overcome with grief. But in the end it’s not good for him to do so at those who are truly his friends.
Update 5-13-04: Ranting Profs posts:
This is a bereaved father raging at whoever he can think to rage at, and they’re giving him the mike and so he’s taking it, but nothing he’s saying is relevant to his son’s death (since we’ve already established that since the kid turned down opportunities to go home, who had him in custody isn’t relevant). So what this amounts to is the fact that they’re using him. As long as he keeps raging, and raging against the administration, they’ll keep putting what he has to say on the air and in the news.
