Friday, January 06, 2006

Dear George,   Her picture was on the front page of Friday’s New York Times. The girl’s shroud was a plastic shopping bag.  She will never see her second birthday; a suicide bomb at the Imam Hussein shrine in Iraq took her out.    Suicide bombs and smart bombs have one thing in common:  a pathological madness detonates them both.  There is a slight difference, though.  The madness behind the suicide bomb screams while the madness behind the smart bomb speaks softly.  This is why we will win in Iraq.  Ours is a madness grounded in reason.  We eschew the emotional excesses of the suicide bomber who splatters his victims with his viscera. Our death is sanitary. We never murder out of anger; it is always a matter of policy.   Let us eulogize the dead girl.  She is a martyr who died that Iraq may one day reap the rewards of democracy and free trade.  Let the shopping bag that was her shroud be a symbol of a new Iraq that will rise from the rubble of the old, an Iraq that will one day know the joy of unrestrained consumption.   Your admirer Belacqua Jones 9:06:21 PM    comment []

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