They hate us for murdering handcuffed children

There's a commercial that takes up a full 5 minutes of my teenagers time when they go to see Avatar for the third time. Among other amazing things, the kids who were once tasked- and had the primary mission- of taking care of the homeland are shown in the desert of the middle east in an action figure firefight.

"Mission Comes First", we are told in a Patriotic Voice.

Even when that mission involves handcuffing and shooting unarmed sleeping children.

...The occupied government of Afghanistan and the United Nations have both concluded that U.S.-led troops recently dragged eight sleeping children out of their beds, handcuffed some of them, and shot them all dead. While this apparently constitutes an everyday act of kindness, far less intriguing than the vicious singeing of his pubic hairs by Captain Underpants, it is at least a variation on the ordinary American technique of murdering men, women, and children by the dozens with unmanned drones.

Also this week in Afghanistan, eight CIA assassins (see if you can find a more appropriate name for them) were murdered by a suicide bombing that one of them apparently executed against the other seven. The Taliban in Pakistan claims credit and describes the mass-murder as revenge for the CIA's drone killings. And we thought unmanned drones were War Perfected because none of the right people would have to risk their lives. Oops. Perhaps Detroit-bound passengers risked theirs unwittingly.

The CIA has declared its intention to seek revenge for the suicide strike. Who knows what the assassination of sleeping students was revenge for. Perhaps the next lunatic to try blowing up something in the United States will be seeking revenge for whatever Obama does to avenge the victims (television viewers?) of the Crotch Crusader. Certainly there will be numerous more acts of violence driven by longings for revenge against the drone pilots and the shooters of students.

In a civilized world, the alternative to vengeance is justice...

[-tip o'teh tinfoil to Avedon]

How 20th Century. What 9/10 thinking. Remember 9/10? The day Rummy admitted to losing $2 trillion somewhere?

Next the nattering natterbobs of negativism will probably be talking about Geneva Conventions one supposes, or how winning hearts doesn't mean procuring organs.