An AP story out of LA caught my attention because it applies to so many different things. A man engaged himself in a 2.5-hour gun battle with police, and during the heat of the fight, the guy lifted up a 19-month old baby as a shield, and the baby was killed. Some people are outraged that a judge just threw out the lawsuit brought by the baby's mother against the city. AP story here.
There was the lawsuit, plus demonstrations. It's awful that the child died, for sure, but these folks need to see past their grief and anger and look at reality for a moment. If the police back down from a guy who is shooting at the police and threatening to kill his children, then every nutjob in the land will automatically have a tool with which to defeat the police. Are these people too dumb to understand that?
The same kinds of people said we should halt the war in Iraq in mid-progress because some civilians had died. This is idiocy. Saddam deliberately placed rocket launchers in civilian neighborhoods because he thought it might prevent bombing attacks on them. Now the next mass-murdering dictator who considers this cowardly strategy, will have to think again.
Precisely the same complaints, from the same kinds of screechy weirdos, are leveled against Israel for going after terrorists in the Palestinian territories. If civilians don't want to get bombed and shot, perhaps they shouldn't allow madmen to use their homes as rocket bases? Just a thought.
The overall message I'm trying to convey is that when there is collateral damage, and it will continue to happen, people have to lay blame where it belongs: In the recent LA shooting, the blame goes to the madman who used the child as a shield. In Palestinian lands, it goes to the terrorists. In Iraqi Freedom, the blame went to Saddam Hussein. Interestingly enough, in the case of Saddam, the Democrats in the USA didn't understand where the blame for war dead lies, but the Iraqis knew -- they hanged the bastard who was at fault.
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