Driven to distraction

I keep clicking over to CNN, hoping for some news on our three missing guys.

And I find this: Iraqi insurgents warn: Stop search for U.S. troops

Hey, insurgents, fuck you.

We will search for them. We have, according to The Man, about 4,000 people doing nothing right now except searching for our three missing. We will search, and, eventually, we will find them. And bring them home.

That's what our military does. We have a standing task force and one of the best forensic labs on earth dedicated to finding and bringing home our missing. Such is our committment to the task. Where, I wonder, is its equivalent in the Muslim world? What does that say about the value of a life here, and there?

We are going to find them. If not today, then tomorrow. If not tomorrow, then someday. Today would be best.

You insurgent bastards, if you had a glimmer of logic through all that death-crazed haze in your brains, will not have harmed them. The smart thing to do would be turn them loose and let us pick them up on a roadside. But if that was too much, if your twisted death-loving minions couldn't not kill prisoners...then do yourselves a favor, and put the unmolested bodies out in the open so we can pick them up and bring them home.

You hear us talk about how thing we're stretched, and yet within 48 hours we can put 4,000 warriors on the street to find our guys.

That's the difference between us and you. You revel in a culture of death and misery, killing women and children and noncombatants to perpetuate a squalid chaos.

We recognize that the very least we owe every man and woman in uniform is a committment to get them home. Because each and every man and woman in uniform is valuable and in that uniform of their own free will, and keeping that promise is a matter of trust.

We waiver a lot in the United States, and often on things we shouldn't. But we don't waiver on this. We don't ask politicians for permission to do what we've promised we will. We don't do the cruel calculus of whether or not our people are worth it.

We're going to find them.