It’s awfully hard for a normal person to understand how a
mother of a six month old baby could hand off the child to a relative and then
embark on a killing spree from which she had to know she would not survive.
The San Bernardino female killer, however, did so. Serving her radical Islamist objectives
overcame her maternal instincts. [Of course, maybe nature’s instinct wasn’t
that strong for her. Some women
certainly feel it more than others. But,
still, she embarked on a suicidal mission which would leave her baby an
orphan. How could she do that?]
It’s not that she was willing to suffer death to serve her
cause. Anyone serving in the military as
a combat soldier can say that. Rather,
it’s that she sought death, displaying simply the mindset of a suicide
bomber. But, thinking that way, when one
has a young child, places the action in a different category.
It’s a reminder that fanaticism can overcome all sense of
human decency, instinct and survival. In
the form of radical Islamist terrorism, we face an enemy that is
unrestrained. Anything – and everything
– will be used against us.
Are we prepared to reciprocate? Do we need to? Effective defense requires that we do all
that is necessary - and to err on the side of aggressiveness, not restraint.
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