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04/10/2004 Archived Entry: "How much worse can things get?"
How much worse can things get?
Could get plenty worse if this is true.
An Iraqi group said in footage aired by an Arab TV station on Saturday it was holding 30 foreign hostages and threatened to decapitate them unless U.S. forces lifted their blockade of the town of Falluja."We are calling for the withdrawal of American and coalition forces. We have Japanese, Bulgarian, Israeli, American, Spanish and Korean hostages. Their numbers are 30," a masked man holding a Kalashnikov rifle said.
"If America doesn't lift its blockade of Falluja their heads will be cut off," he said in the footage in Arabic, which Al Arabiya said it obtained from news agencies. It did not show any of the alleged hostages.
For Iraq updates, Juan Cole is on it as usual. And there really ain't that much news that is good at this point.
Replies: 5 people speak up
things can and will get much worse.
Posted by justin @ 04/10/2004 02:48 PM NY
The only way to respond is to attack Fallujah. Anything less will be taken as a weakness. Open displays of terrible force are what the majority of Muslims within these countries expect. It is counted a strength, and the sign of a good leader.
Posted by IXLNXS @ 04/10/2004 03:45 PM NY
Didn't they attack Fallujah this week?
Posted by editor @ 04/10/2004 03:54 PM NY
Open displays of terrible force are what the majority of Muslims within these countries expect.
read as, "a good atrocity is just what these no-good wogs deserve".
So lemme get this straight. We're going to inspire democracy through the use of brutality, which is the only thing they understand, but the brutality is what they respect, so Arabs/Muslims are not likely to overthrow their brutal leaders in favor of freedom 'cause they only respect brutality, so democracy must be brought to them all at the point of a gun. But they won't want democracy anyway so we'll have to settle for their brutal leaders after all since they wouldn't follow a democratic leader...
Oh, THAT'S why they didn't greet us with open arms and cheers! We didn't nuke Baghdad!
jeezus, my head hurts when I try to think like a repug. It sure as hell seems there are some here in the U.S. that consider "terrible force" to be "the sign of a good leader".
Posted by Tanystropheus @ 04/10/2004 09:13 PM NY
Here's the only report I can find about current hostages:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/10/iraq.missing/index.html
Posted by Demeur @ 04/11/2004 03:07 AM NY
