American Soldiers Show True Heroism

American Soldiers Show True Heroism


On March 5 in Baghdad, a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb killing himself and at least twenty-eight other people. Dozens more people were wounded, and human flesh was scattered around the area. Other suicide bombers in Iraq and Afghanistan blew themselves up along with at least forty other people last month. These Muslims were killing other Muslims, and the silence was deafening. Neither Muslims, nor the European press, nor the Western press publicized or condemned the killings.

NBC reported a story a couple of weeks ago that shows a difference in the worldviews of terrorists and American soldiers. Wounded terrorist insurgents were brought into a U.S. medical facility near Tikrit. Two insurgents had been caught in the act of placing a roadside bomb that was intended to kill American soldiers. An American helicopter fired on the terrorists to stop them, and a U.S. medical team risked their own lives bringing the wounded terrorists in for medical treatment.

One of the terrorists needed thirty pints of blood to survive, but the base was already low on blood. The request went out for blood donors, and within minutes, American soldiers were lined up by the dozens to donate blood. Brian Suam was at the head of the line. He was asked if he minded that his blood was going to save the life of a terrorist. Suam smiled and said, “A human life is a human life.”

On the radical Muslim side, people are taught to kill themselves if infidels (that would be any non-Muslim) will also die. Our Christian heritage teaches that human life is sacred, whether the life is that of an enemy or that of a friend. Most Americans believe in the sanctity of human life, whether or not they are Christians.

Don’t let anyone tell you that all religious people are the same. Don’t let anyone say to you that there is no difference between a Christian and a radical Muslim terrorist. Muslims will continue to blow themselves up until their leaders condemn the action. Peace-loving Muslims have no leaders who are teaching them anything contrary to what the radicals are espousing. We cannot afford to ignore the situation and come home.

I would love to be an isolationist, to close the borders, to bring all the troops home, and to produce everything we need right here in the good old U.S.A., but that is a pipe dream. There is no way to shut out the rest of the world. As long as there is terrorism and tyranny, we must fight it. We must support those who are literally giving their blood to promote freedom.