Rescue for Paul and Rachel Chandler
Don’t get all bent out of shape, this is just my opinion, but reading the new of Mr. and Mrs. Chandler, who have been kidnapped by Somalian Pirates (two British Subjects) brings up the age old question (s): why do we allow this, and why haven’t we done something about this (in the last 100-days of their captivity), when we can go to Mars, walk on the moon, and we can’t even trespass on Semolian dirt, to save an old man and old woman (if that was Prince…one of the Royal Family Members, it would have been cause for WWIII, on day one or two); but these two elder folks are perhaps not useful to the long term program in England, but they have my sentiments.
I do recognize some issues here. If we did what I’d liked to do, which is send a hit squad in there and put some of those tough guys in body bags, I’d most likely have to face the human rights groups, on behalf of the dead Somalian gorillas, I expect.
It’s a confusing world we live in, we are too overly concerned with too many people’s opinion, when we know right from wrong, and this is dead wrong, we know where they are, and we have the means to get them out, and we should. Not by paying them the ransom, I’m all for not doing it that way, we got to do it the hard way, that’s the only way they know. The monkey see, monkey do way. The Old Testament way: an eye for an eye, this is war.
Evidently, fighting for someone else’s issues, like in Iraq, or Afghanistan is a more worthy cause than for one’s own citizens. If England can send a few thousand troops here and there to countries that don’t pay any taxes to England, why not to Somalia to free a tax paying citizen—by way of whatever it takes, military, some other way to free one of their own. Whatever the case, my prayers are with them.
Don’t get all bent out of shape, this is just my opinion, but reading the new of Mr. and Mrs. Chandler, who have been kidnapped by Somalian Pirates (two British Subjects) brings up the age old question (s): why do we allow this, and why haven’t we done something about this (in the last 100-days of their captivity), when we can go to Mars, walk on the moon, and we can’t even trespass on Semolian dirt, to save an old man and old woman (if that was Prince…one of the Royal Family Members, it would have been cause for WWIII, on day one or two); but these two elder folks are perhaps not useful to the long term program in England, but they have my sentiments.
I do recognize some issues here. If we did what I’d liked to do, which is send a hit squad in there and put some of those tough guys in body bags, I’d most likely have to face the human rights groups, on behalf of the dead Somalian gorillas, I expect.
It’s a confusing world we live in, we are too overly concerned with too many people’s opinion, when we know right from wrong, and this is dead wrong, we know where they are, and we have the means to get them out, and we should. Not by paying them the ransom, I’m all for not doing it that way, we got to do it the hard way, that’s the only way they know. The monkey see, monkey do way. The Old Testament way: an eye for an eye, this is war.
Evidently, fighting for someone else’s issues, like in Iraq, or Afghanistan is a more worthy cause than for one’s own citizens. If England can send a few thousand troops here and there to countries that don’t pay any taxes to England, why not to Somalia to free a tax paying citizen—by way of whatever it takes, military, some other way to free one of their own. Whatever the case, my prayers are with them.
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