Countering the Worshippers of Death
Alan Dershowitz writing at WSJ:
The two basic premises of conventional warfare have long been that soldiers and civilians prefer living to dying and can thus be deterred from killing by the fear of being killed; and that combatants (soldiers) can easily be distinguished from noncombatants (women, children, the elderly, the infirm and other ordinary citizens). These premises are being challenged by women like Zahra Maladan. Neither she nor her son—if he listens to his mother—can be deterred from killing by the fear of being killed. They must be prevented from succeeding in their ghoulish quest for martyrdom. Prevention, however, carries a high risk of error. The woman walking toward the group of soldiers or civilians might well be an innocent civilian. A moment’s hesitation may cost innocent lives. But a failure to hesitate may also have a price.
This is why I teach my son the value of life and the existence of the Islamic Death Cult. I wrote a long time ago that we are all Israelis now, and as such I will endow in him the same skills that any Israeli parent gives his or her son:
The ability to shoot well.
The ability to defend himself.
The ability to do both the above without doubt or remorse.
This is war, and if my enemy wants to sacrifice her son for the Islamic Death Cult it is my duty to train my son so that he doesn’t take my son with him. In fact as the jihadis have learned in Afghanistan and Iraq, it’s harder than ever to kill an American. Her little boy can pack all the nails and ballbearings he wants on his body, and when he blows up odds are is that he won’t touch an American soldier. My son will live, hers will be dead and for what? The clerics? We don’t see Nasrallah’s children strapping on the suicide vest. Khamenei’s children aren’t blowing themselves up and heeding their father’s call for martyrs. Even Osama Bin Laden’s children enjoy the fruits of life without the temptations the afterlife.
How many children will she sacrifice while Nasrallah’s live like princes in Syria? How many will she sacrifice to heed the calls of the clerics while their own children live well? Maladan is an idiot – albeit a very useful one. She also as much a mother as Medea.
More on the cult’s use of voluntary human shields.
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