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August 11, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/28776.htm

Misplaced Mercy

(New York Post) Ralph Peters- Intervening at the Iraqi government's request, the Marines fighting Muqtada al-Sadr's terrorist militia have been doing a superb job, killing at least 360 members of the renegade "Mahdi Army" and capturing hundreds more. We should never send our military on any mission we only intend to prosecute half-heartedly. We have to deal with the world in which we live, not the one we wish we inhabited. Our tradition of passivity fostered the rise of a class of terrorists and thugs who would be delighted to slaughter every man, woman, and child in America. We need to kill them first.

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