Shot In The Dark: Thanks For Saving Our Lives. Now Take Your Stuff And Please Leave

March 24, 2006

Thanks For Saving Our Lives. Now Take Your Stuff And Please Leave

Christian Peacemaker Teams finally thanked their rescuers (ya gotta scroll down):

We are grateful to the soldiers who risked their lives to free Jim, Norman and Harmeet. As peacemakers who hold firm to our commitment to nonviolence, we are also deeply grateful that they fired no shots to free our colleagues.

They're pacifists, so I suppose it'd be unfair to ask if they'd be thankful they'd be if the SAS (?) had had to shoot their way through a roomful of butchers.

That, apparently, was not what happened:

Among the scant information General Lynch offered in a press briefing, he said a detainee captured Wednesday night had provided the authorities with information that guided them to the house where the three hostages were being held. The captives were found unguarded, their kidnappers having vanished, General Lynch said.

Although the example of Christ doesn't encourage bloodymindedness, I think I'd be forgiven for feeling bummed that they didn't mow down at least a few of the butchers.

Posted by Mitch at March 24, 2006 06:37 AM | TrackBack

Comments

Hey, speaking of bloody-mindedness, any chance you guys will get bin Laden any time soon? Or is that another one of the loose ends Bush plans to leave to the next president?

Posted by: angryclown at March 24, 2006 08:18 AM

The CPT's knew going into Iraq that there was a significant chance they'd be abducted & held hostage. They knew that coalition forces would be obligated to find them and attempt a rescue. They knew that any such rescue attempt would likely leave people dead (not this time, thank God). And yet they call themselves "peacemakers".

Posted by: Terry at March 24, 2006 11:27 AM

I just clicked on the link, Mitch..

I think they took the "Thank you to soldiers" part out again...

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