Attack is the best form of defence?
When you get one opportunity to make a first impression, I wonder how some people can mess it up so spectacularly.
I’m not for one moment suggesting that George W Bush deserves to be physically attacked but you would have to ask why Muntazer al-Zaidi believed that a shoe would make the ideal weapon?
The 28 year old Iraqi journalist is currently being held for the attack at the news conference on Sunday. His first shoe flew over the President’s head and hit the back wall, while the second caused him to duck.
Zaidi was immediately wrestled to the ground by security guards and frogmarched from the room as he shouted: “You are responsible for the death of thousands of Iraqis.”
The attack has provoked widespread reaction, most against but some for:
This was a spontaneous action by an Iraqi citizen who was showing his dismay at seeing the president of the country which is occupying our nation,” said Liwaa Sumeissim from the anti-American Sadr movement.
The Iraqi Government called the actions “shameful”.
I can understand the reasons, but I doubt that Al-Baghdadia television will get their wish in their demand for his immediate release. Violent protest can never be the answer and while the footage shown makes it all look like a badly scripted scene in a bad B movie about Bush’s life.
However it cannot be justified. The people of Iraq will never all agree on one way for the country to be run, as much as the fairytale would have been an open armed reaction to the “liberation.
Cool heads need to prevail in this situation, because there are genuine people on both sides who want issues like this resolved as quickly as possible.
However there are too many, that are surfacing, who enjoy chaos and what it brings. If you let them dominate, then what happens?
Monday, December 15th, 2008 and is filed under Thoughts & Questions, Views on News.
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