Column of the Day: The Three Freed Canadian Hostages as “Moral Imbeciles”

Ian Robinson in today’s Calgary Sun is appalled by the behavior of the three Canadian hostages free in Iraq last week, and it’s about time somebody, if you excuse the expression, struck out at it (bolds are mine):

Pacifist group revealed as moral imbeciles
By Ian Robinson

When the three Western hostages were rescued by coalition forces in Iraq last week and returned to Canada, was I the only one who was disappointed?

Was I the only one who thought: Dear Lord. Is THIS what all the fuss was about?

These smarmy, international busybodies, the Gladys Kravitzes of the Iraq occupation, peering out at the world from behind the curtains with their pursed little disapproving lips?

These sanctimonious, reality challenged little creeps?

And even after the release, the organization to which they’re attached was still taking metaphorical shots at the coalition of troops who rescued them.

“As peacemakers who hold firm to our commitment to non-violence, we are also deeply grateful that they fired no shots to free our colleagues,” their press release said.

What would the hostages have done if shots had been fired? Voluntarily returned to captivity?

If ever a group wasn’t worth the effort and risk to free them, it’s these guys.

….. A report out of Baghdad also indicated these self-involved, self-righteous morons declined to provide valuable intelligence about their kidnappers to the British, U.S. and Canadian soldiers who saved their lives!

See, members of Christian Peacemaker Teams are pacifists and they don’t co-operate with men with guns who might use the information to track down kidnappers and/or terrorists and shoot them in the head until they agree to stop kidnapping and/or terrorizing people.

Pacifists don’t believe in violence and refuse to use it or abet its use. Pacifists are therefore moral imbeciles.

They’re like the guy at the party who won’t kick in for the pizza but sneaks a slice when he thinks nobody’s looking.

Pacifists are the same.

They’re thieves who enjoy the protection offered by those they morally despise but aren’t willing to get their hands dirty themselves.

They walk down our safe Canadian streets, enjoying that safety.

Never mind the only reason our streets are safe is because criminals are hunted down by men and women called “police officers.”

….. We live in a civilized society — in which wimpy pacifist losers can walk around safely — because we live under constant threat of socially sanctioned government violence.

….. Pacifists ….. have never accomplished anything in this world and never will, and they’ve certainly never created what they purport to love: Peace.

They believe violence never solves anything when, in fact, the judicious use of violence solves many of the large problems.

South Korea is free because men — real men, not pacifists — sacrificed to stop the North Koreans from enslaving it. Ditto for Nazi and Japanese aggression during the Second World War. Violence ended black slavery on this continent.

All of those achievements were won by men with guns, not the wimps on the sidelines praying and feeling smug about occupying the moral high ground.