Loyalty and Gratitude

Americans are all upset over Britain entering into a profitable oil deal with Libya, one element of which is apparently Britain's release of a Libyan agent convicted of killing 270 people by bringing down an airliner over Scotland. He received a hero's welcome home in Libya.

Without suggesting that our outrage is unjustified, I want to look at another side of this. From Libya's point of view its actions can be ascribed to simple loyalty. Moreover, if Libya did not take such actions in loyalty to its agents, how many of them would be willing to continue killing for Libya?

Of course such loyalty and gratitude are foreign to us. Obama’s attorney general is a man who in a previous position helped release unrepentant terrorists who were serving time for murdering Americans. He is currently initiating investigations leading to prosecution of CIA officials whose questioning of terrorists resulted in America not being attacked again in the wake of 9/11. And the Obama Veteran's Administration distributes to wounded veterans a pamphlet which seeks to save money by encouraging them to commit suicide rather than receiving expensive medical care for the wounds they incurred in serving the U.S.

Would that America were as loyal and grateful as Libya to those who have served it.

. . . From a friend and colleague