Afghanistan, prior to 9/11.  A Routine Weekend Execution

Beautiful Lady

Why do they hate you?  Simply because you are a woman, or because you believed in something they did not?  Is this the life you want?  Is Bush so evil, that he sought to remove the men who do this to you?  I'm sorry that we could not save you.  What is going through your mind right now, knowing that soon you will be violently shot and killed?  Are you praying?  Do you remember those brief, but precious moments of your childhood when the world was a wonderful place?  Can you remember the first time you saw the ocean, or smelled a flower?  Do you see your daughter?  What kind of life do you imagine she will have?  Does time seem to stand still when there are only seconds left?  Poor lady, why did it have to come to this?  Who are these evil men, that they rob from you what is not theirs to take?

 I promise you, that these men paid for what they did to you.  Justice, wonderful justice, will come to them.  Your daughters will go to school.  Imagine this!  It seems like a distant, far away dream:  your daughter sitting in a classroom learning without having to hid her face.  This is what really happened!  Now your daughters can learn to read and write.   No, Bush cannot make your world perfect, but with the world's help, we can make it better.  There are some white college kids and flaming leftists, however, like to say otherwise.  They sit around in their rich neighborhoods, smoking pot, drinking booze, going to parties, skipping out on classes, cruising in their streets- they have the easy life.  They sit around and condemn everyone else, they clench their fists in anger thinking they are acting on 'principles.'  Elite collegiate kids at Oxford, Harvard, Europe, and sadly America and Canada.  Socialist kids in the suburbs of America. Poorer kids who are activists and "peace protestors" who raise their fists in anger, holding up NAZI signs of hate, ignorantly blaming Bush for the worlds problems.  They don't understand that your death was irrelevant to Bush.  And they don't care.  They hate Bush so much, it consumes them. These people would rather your daughter suffer the same fate as you.  They hate Bush for taking down the men that do this to you.  These westerners, unlike you, are free.  These college kids who hate Bush so much already have freedom.  People have already died for them.  You see, dear woman, freedom is never free.  It is bought with blood.  Every American, Canadian, European Bush-hater raises their voice because others before them died so they could be free.  Your death today is a tragedy.   If the white Bush-hating college kids get their way, your daughters and their daughters will live under the same oppression you do.  What is happening to you is evil.  And I am so glad that America is finally taking action.  It took Bin Laden to sting us, but we finally responded.  There is no reason ever that a country should do the things to you that it is doing.  The Taliban are evil and taking them down was just!.  I know that we cannot make your world perfect, I know that we cannot end all the violence, but we will try to give you the chance to make a fresh start.  We will take out these men that do this, and your people, your sons and daughters will have to take the flame into their own hands, and make a nation where you can be free.  Poor lady, know that amongst all the Bush-hatred and white college kids who care nothing for you, there are some of us that do.  There are some of us who want to see you have a better life.  Long after Bush is gone, the wicked Islamic fascist monsters that think they are serving "Allah" by their barbarism will still pay a heavy price by free loving peoples who have a perpetual moral responsibility to give help to the helpless.  God forbid if America is ever run by an appeaser that passively allows such barbarism to go unchallenged.

-Arthur