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Roger L. Simon comments on a statement made by Chris Matthews:
Earlier today I was drafted on the Hugh Hewitt’s Show at the last minute. When it happens that way, I don’t have a chance to put up an alert on the blog. Hugh called to ask what I thought of comments made my Chris Matthews on Hardball in which Chris said of the Iraqi ‘insurgents’ “they’re not bad guys especially, just people who just disagree with us…”
...I found Matthews’ comments despicable. But then I guess I just have trouble lumping our soliders in any way with Islamic terrorists who cut peoples’ heads off or Baathist fascists who seek to reinstate a regime that dumped children in mass graves with their toys. I leave that kind of moral equivalency to Chris Matthews and his ilk.
“They’re not bad guys especially, just people who just disagree with us…”—what a preposterous statement Matthews has made. It’s not their disagreeing with us that we object to. It’s their killing of the civilians of our country (and of others.)
The terrorists kill as many civilians as they can, while we do everything we can to avoid doing so.
Our soldiers are risking their lives every day in circumstances like Falluja, just to protect as much as possible, the local civilians from harm. It would be far safer for our soldiers to just fire-bomb the place from the air and have done with it. It would cost far less as well, needless to say. Drop a few bombs, the city is flattened, mission accomplished. The only reason we don’t do that is that we are doing everything we can, despite the risks, to minimize civilian casualties.
