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=> The Terrorist

The Terrorist

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Monday, June 9 2008, 22:07:25 (CEST)
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A Christian pilot in a Stealth bomber climbs to 40,000 feet and presses a button releasing a very elaborate bomb that lands on a house vaporizing the children taking their nap and scattering hot metal shards of enriched plutonium that bury themselves in the ground ensuring that any children who survive will develop cancer years down the line. He sees nothing and knows nothing, first hand, of what he’s done. He faces no risks, there are no guns capable of reaching him, he could be trimming his fingernails and ordering lunch when the bombs goes off. He doesn’t even hear the noise but is 100 miles away when it goes off. Two minutes later he’s back on an airfield half a world away joking with his buddies and maybe calling his five-year old girl to wish her a happy birthday and remind her to say her prayers at Sunday school because Jesus loves children. When you factor in that the owner of the house he’s just disappeared and whose family is no more never did anything to the Christian soldier or his country and was himself a teacher and never in his own country’s military even, you will have a good example of who is a Terrorist. At least according to the Christian pilot who sees himself as a soldier, a warrior, and most recently, and unaccountably, a hero.

The teacher, having survived by being away from his home trying to find clean water and an aspirin for his family, finds he has nothing left to live for and a new, hitherto unfelt rage fills his body and steels his determination. He will seek revenge on the man and those who sent him, who wantonly destroyed all that he had ever held dear and precious. But how? With no money and all his meager possessions turned to dust, what can he do? The aircraft carrier the Christian used may be miles a way at sea…or the airfield he landed on in another country entirely a thousand miles away. How will he identify who did this to him? And how will he reach him and with what will he take his revenge? He doesn’t even have a knife left to twist in that man’s intestines.

He sits by the dusty road and indulges himself in impotent dreams of revenge. He imagines himself magically transported to that pilot’s own village, to the very house where his own family is sitting down to their sumptuous meal. There’s a bomb in his hands and he throws it through a window blowing to pieces the pilot’s wife and children. But even in his rage and madness for revenge he recoils from the image. Having suffered the supreme injustice of an attack against his own defenseless family he hesitates to do the same to the pilot. It would be a hollow revenge, even though it would pain the pilot more than an attack on his own person, leaving him a lifetime to bewail his loss, as this man must now face.

But it would be cowardly and the world needs less cowards not more. Just then a vehicle appears around the corner with soldiers from the Christian pilot’s country perched atop, their heavy riles and machine guns sweeping the empty streets. Here is his chance….here is the closest he can come to the pilot. He takes a rock, a fragment of his bombed out home and rises to hurl it at the tank…his arm drawn back he’s spotted and a Christian soldier fires a around of heavy bullets that cut the man in two and his body crumples to the ground, the rock fragment falling at his feet.

Weeks later the Christian pilot is decorated for heroism and a plaque placed in his home town with his name on it. No one is left who remembers the Iraqi man or his family.

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