DRUMBEATS

What a monstrous sight, this picture of America's best
casually discarded in an ignominious pile. It burns like a
dagger seared through the chest. What is to be gained by
displaying human beings like trophies from a safari?

I wonder if the sight of these young people, flung aside
like worthless rubbish, has changed the resolve of those
remaining who offered to stand like human shields before the
perpetrators of this hateful abomination? Some 'shields'
have already left in shock after discovering the depth of
the depravity of the regime that they had come to protect.

I can think of no surer way to steel the resolve of their
fellows to avenge the desecration of these compatriots
who fought honorably and perished ignobly. These were
people who had come not out of a desire to conquer another
people, or for personal gain, but because they felt that they
were preserving their own freedoms. Or simply because
they were following orders.

They did not deserve this. One can only hope that those
who are responsible, who slyly pretend to surrender and
then attack from behind a white flag, will discover here
on earth a measure of the hell that awaits them after death.