Author Topic: Editorial-- sniper shot is no cause for celebration.  (Read 2003 times)

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Offline kimmy

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Yeah, the Saudis are basically ISIS with international recognition. What a shitbag country.

The Canadian presence in the Levant is intended to be in instruction and training of the Iraqi armed forces (and other anti-ISIS allies) and as such it shouldn't be too surprising that some of our personnel are within 3.5 km of active combat.  If a Canadian soldier stepped outside the instruction-and-training role to perform an action that saved the lives of our allies in the conflict, I think that's great and I don't care if the NDP feel otherwise. In fact, like Prime Minister Trudeau, I think that's cause to celebrate our excellent armed forces personnel.


I guess what I found galling was the tone of the Toronto Star piece. I don't want to use the phrase "political correctness", but I can't think of a better way to phrase it.  I mean, I'm usually on the side defending "political correctness" against reactionary voices, but in this, I just can't buy in.   The idea that a death, even an ISIS fighter, is nothing to celebrate, is just ... wrong. It's wrong. Sorry.

If somebody could have killed Marc Lepine before he killed 14 people, that would have been cause for celebration. If somebody could have killed him before he killed the 14th victim, that still would have been cause for celebration. If somebody would have killed him before he killed his 13th victim, that still would have been cause for celebration. And so on. Given that the Canadian sniper stopped what would have been an ambush of anti-ISIS allies, we don't know for sure how many lives were saved, but potentially there were at least some. We don't know how many people the slain ISIS fighter might have killed in the future, but it potentially it is at least some.  We don't need to know how many people the ISIS fighter might have killed any more than we need to know how good of a marksman Marc Lepine was to know that it would have been good if he'd been killed before we had to find out.


The Star piece proposes that every life has value.  I question this. ISIS stands for murder, ****, torture, slavery, and oppression. If you sign up to fight for those values, you DESERVE a bullet in the head. "He had a family"?  Don't care. "He could have been rehabilited"?  **** you. "He might have been brainwashed or coerced?"  Don't give a ******** that guy. Glad he's dead.  His death is one tiny victory in the fight to prevent more like him from being born or recruited.


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