Peacekeepers' Wayward Plea

Tomorrow, the four Christian Peacemaker Team members captured by Iraqi terror squads are scheduled to die bruttal, unjust deaths. As much as I pray they will be released, I fear their fate is sealed because it is in the hands of unspeakably cruel people.

That didn't stop CPT from lashing out at America. Here's the statement it posted yesterday:

"We are very concerned about our friends. We would very much like to know that they are in good condition. It is our most sincere wish that you will immediately release them unharmed.

While we believe the action of kidnapping is wrong, we do not condemn you as people. We recognize the humanity in each person, and respect it very much. This includes you, our colleagues, and all people.

Do they also recognize the evil in these people and the sin in all people? When put before Herod for judgment, Christ uttered not a word to him, a sign of mercy (Herod deserved much worse) and Christ's recognition of Herod's evil. CPT will not recognize the evil of this terror gang, however.

We believe there needs to be a force that counters all the resentment, the fear, the intimidation felt by the Iraqi people. We are trying to be that force: to speak for justice, to advocate for the human rights of Iraqis, to look at an Iraqi face and say: my brother, my sister.

The Iraqis today feel more resentment, fear and intimidation from the jihadists than the do from the American forces. Overwhelmingly so. But CPT sees only through anti-American eyes.

Perhaps you are men who only want to raise the issue of illegal detention. We don't know what you may have endured.

How sadly comical. This organization allowed four of its members to risk their lives with a complete lack of understanding of what they were getting into. They thought terrorists were their allies in anti-Americanism, and that issues like "illegal detention" mattered a whit to terrorists.

Do they not ask themselves what Mohammed Atta endured? A cushy life, a good education, acceptance into the US. And for that, he flew a 757 into the World Trade Center.

As you can see by the statements of support from our friends in Iraq and all over the world, we work for those who are oppressed. We also condemn our own governments for their actions in Iraq.

Too bad the terrorists don't work for those oppressed. They work to put the world under the rule of repressive jihadocrats who would oppress the life out of anyone who doesn't go their way.

Please, we appeal to your humanity to show mercy on our brothers and let them come back safely to us to continue our work. May God spare our friends, and all the people of Iraq any further suffering.

Here I agre fully. Maybe there is a gram of humanity in their souls. Certainly there is unbounding mercy in God. And may the people of Iraq be spared further suffering through the rapid, powerful and complete obliteration of the jihadist forces of evil at the hands of the brave and righteous soldiers of the US and its allies.