The Associated Press reported that a US Navy-contracted ship fired at a small Egyptian boat. Its crime was going through the Suez Canal. They killed a person.
USS Cole, you’re thinking. However, I am thinking that “small boats selling cigarettes and other products often swarm the civilian ships moving through the canal. These waterborne merchants know not to approach military vessels but the ‘Global Patriot’ looked like a civilian vessel, said the security official, speaking on customary condition of anonymity.”
The US military responded, “Our team did take the appropriate steps to take those measured steps to warn the vessels that were getting too close.” Plus, what is one more dead Arab father, really?
In related news, Hillary Clinton claimed to land on the ‘Global Patriot’ in the midst of sniper fire and small explosions. Mission accomplished.
[tarboush tip: Fadi and Fayyad]
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It’s ridiculous that the Americans didn’t sink the boat. There were so many more Arabs they could have killed!
It’s like they’re not even trying to be genocidal.
Posted by Roy | March 25, 2008, 8:30 amSeriously, I mean, they have the capabilities to kill every Arab. That they do not use these capabilities really speaks to the benevolence of the Americans, and gives them carte blanche to kill individual Arabs every now and then. Great point.
Posted by Anonymous | March 25, 2008, 8:32 amSo you agree that they’re not genocidal. That’s progress.
Posted by Roy | March 26, 2008, 11:22 am