I've been thinking some more about Kim Sun-Il, Paul Johnson, and Nicholas Berg, and considering a question posed to Blackfive by one of his readers regarding the South Korean.
Emil J. asks me what should South Korea do?Sure, but first maybe they should have lied to the terrorists, promised them whatever they wanted, and then created an opportunity to meet them and kill them.Emil, South Korea should double the number of troops they are sending and include some ROK Marines. I've spent some time training with ROK Marines and they are tough and professional.
Why should we negotiate in good faith with this kind of scum? No honorable adversary would take it as precedent and fear our dishonesty. We need to fight dirtier. We need to stop worry about "bringing them to justice" and realize that hunting terrorists down and killing them is justice enough.
(HT: Hugh Hewitt.)
Update:
Sam at Hammorabi (an Iraqi blogger) agrees:
Now Mr Iyad Alawi and his government need to take certain action as urgent as possible. First the capital punishment should not only be to the terrorist but to those who assists them by any way at all and sever punishment for those who keeps silent about their places or activities. The other thing is to execute them in public. Those who kill should face the same destiny by the same method. The other important thing is to impose a curfew on all areas where terrorist hide and attack. There are special areas like Falluja and Baquoba should have Military rulers and military curfew with strict sanctions and no reconstructions or ordinary services until they clear themselves from the sin of the terrorist. More strict action from the coalition needed now to isolate Falluja before the 30/6/2004. It needs complete blockade now and attacks for the terrorist sites. Zarqawi days counted and he know that soon(HT: Citizen Smash.)
There is a famous passage that talks about how I will answer your aggression against me -- something like you send one tank, I'll send a division. You do this, I'll do that. I've been thinking about this since hearing Dennis Prager yesterday and can't place any of the exact words. Can you help me out?
il: Doesn't ring a bell. Who said it? What context? What country? Anything?
I think it refers to what will happen to you if you attack Israel.
I remember hearing that quote too, but I can't place it either. I don't think it relates to Israel though.
-Will
www.wkirby.com
Are you sure you're not thinking of The Untouchables?
"If they pull a knife, you pull a gun. If they send one of yours to the hospital, you send one of theirs to the morgue."
Michael,
I haven't been able to read you for two weeks but yesterday, I was just wondering something similar. Kind of like, "Okay Iraq -- we're leaving now." All the troops "pack up and leave" and then at the last possible second, when all the terrorist think they can come out of hiding and take over Iraq, we run back into the country and say "SIKE!" and kill them.
Of course I'm being a little absurd here but I think you get the picture.
P: I'm glad you kept your sanity while you were away for so long!
In a way, much of the operation in Iraq has been similar to what you describe. Terrorists from all around the world have been attracted to our "fly paper" there, and are being killed in droves.