Pieces in Our Time

Stilton’s Place, by Stilton Jarlsberg — October 28, 2019

Excerpt:

Saturday night “live” is what ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi wasn’t following a daring special forces operation last Saturday night. Troops went in, cleared the compound – killing those who resisted – then closed in on al-Baghdadi himself.

The ISIS leader scurried down a dead-end (literally) tunnel with three of his children, then blew all of them to bits with a suicide vest.

President Trump, in a statement Sunday morning, made it clear that al-Baghdadi “died like a dog. He died like a coward. Whimpering, screaming, and crying. The thug who tried so hard to intimidate others spent his last moments in utter fear, in total panic and dread, terrified of the American forces bearing down on him.”

Trump’s willingness to take a metaphorical leak on al-Baghdadi’s grave stands in stark contrast to Barack Obama’s more measured (to put it mildly) statement upon the killing of Osama bin Laden. Obama described Osama as a terrorist and killer, but did not further personalize attacks on bin Laden’s character nor the manner of his death. And we should note that as an additional show of respect for bin Laden (and not Islam, because Obama specifically stated that “Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader”),  Obama ordered the terror mastermind’s body to be washed and wrapped per Muslim tradition, then immediately buried at sea without further forensics.

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