The PC mind in operation over Fallujah

Dr Sadoun al-Dulame, a Baghdad-based political scientist, said with regard to retaliating against the monsters of Fallujah that "If you hit the whole city [Fallujah], you will simply be expanding the circle of your opponents...There's not much the Americans should do now but withdraw." (The Christian Science Monitor, 2 April 2004)

That's the advice generally regurgitated in the Western media from non-Western commentators. Any sort of difficulty is the signal to throw one's arms in the air and give in to the perpetrators of violence. The futility perceived by those who swallow this sort of thing is well illustrated in a short comment sent by one Gertrude Welch to the American newspaper, The Mercury News.

Thanks to the Mercury News for showing the pictures of the attack in Al-Fallujah, Iraq, (Page 15A, April 1) and the gruesome display of the corpses of the U.S. government contractors. Without the pictures, I do not think I would have realized the extremity of the assault. Readers need to see pictures of this nature to be affected. This was a horrific act, but it does convey the hatred and rage over the occupation by the coalition forces.

Both President Bush and John Kerry are saying we can't ``cut and run'' in spite of this grisly attack. When have we heard that before? Sounds like Vietnam, doesn't it?

Gertrude Welch

It is just incomprehensible that a person of normal intelligence and feeling could recognise the 'the extremity of the assault' (she can't get 'barbarism' passed her lips), and turn around and blame those with the courage to stand up to the new Hitlers, Stalins, Pol Pots, etc. Gertrude should be congratulated for such a neat articulation of her class's moral confusion and cowardice. And, indeed, it is reminiscent of the disgusting betrayal by the Left during the Vietnam War.