Michael J. Totten: Masochism (and not of the interesting variety)

March 23, 2006

Masochism (and not of the interesting variety)

Brave members of the Multinational forces in Iraq rescued the three "peace" activists. Here is how they responded (extract from the "Statement By Loney Family" and the identical Christian Peacemaker Teams statement:

We believe that the illegal occupation of Iraq by Multinational Forces is the root cause of the insecurity which led to this kidnapping and so much pain and suffering in Iraq. The occupation must end.
Today, in the face of this joyful news, our faith compels us to love our enemies even when they have committed acts which caused great hardship to our friends and sorrow to their families.

The Multi-National Force-Iraq has United Nations backing in the form of UNSCRs 1511 (2003), 1546 (2004) and 1637 (2005).

The fascists murdered their friend, then they condemn their rescuers. Now where does it say: "love your murderers, denounce your friends"?

The kindest way in which one can characterize these people's attitude is: "What have the Romans ever done for us?"

Andrew Apostolou (seeking salvation in jim jams).

Posted by Andrew Apostolou at March 23, 2006 09:11 PM

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our faith compels us to love our enemies

One wonders whether they feel that their faith compels them to love these soldiers. One guesses not.

(Loving someone you think of as a sort of exotic pet does not count for as much as loving someone you genuinely feel contempt and fear of, at least in my book, and it's clear to me that it would be harder for these people to practice love for an American soldier than for an Arab jihadi.)

(I won't even get into how much it does or doesn't count when you make a point of bragging about it publicly.)

Posted by: jaed at March 23, 2006 06:43 PM

I too sent them an email asking how they express their love for George Bush, Dick Cheney, Tony Blair and other Multinational Force leaders whom their faith compels them to love.

I meant it very seriously. I haven't heard back yet.

Posted by: markus at March 24, 2006 11:32 AM

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