Editor,
To Rachel Maddow: Rachel, I am disturbed by your Tim McVeigh documentary. Your experts keep describing him as psychotically cold for his military attitude about his mission and his motive. And they describe his killing of 168 people as a major horror almost beyond belief.
How is what he did so different from the missions of every F-18 pilot who dropped a ton of bombs on a building in Baghdad killing men, women and children? Is it because of war that those children are different and their deaths not murder? Is it because they are Muslim or Baathist that they should be killed with professional detachment? Is it because the pilot had permission from George Bush that dropping his bomb was not an act of terrorism, but liberation?
Is it because his name was read in a church with praise and prayer every Sunday? McVeigh did it once. Our pilots did it 10,000 times in Iraq, and our leaders are frothing for the power to do it again in Iran. Do you think no F-18 pilot ever asks himself if it was really all right for him to do exactly the same thing as McVeigh? Should he should feel not guilt, but pride?
And yes, Rachel, I do have the bones myself, a box of bones you wouldn’t want to have to carry.
James Nathan Post
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