‘Lord ... Just Help Us Kill ‘Em’

[zakur]

Story

SOON THE TROOPS will swoop down on a house in Fallujah’s northern outskirts, where a Baathist named Taha and 30 comrades are holding a meeting, allegedly to plan roadside bombings. “Go out and grab Taha,” says the company commander, Capt. Matthew Mobley. “He’s gonna have a helluva treat for Halloween.” Then the battalion’s chaplain asks the men to join him in a short prayer. “Lord, there are bad guys out there,” he says, bowing his head. “Just help us kill ‘em.”

That short prayer is so...like...Old Testament. Perhaps the chaplain should have used "smite" in place of "kill."

 

[Folly]

Heh. I always think of the Butthole Surfers song Jet Fighter when I hear stuff like that.

Boom Boom!

 

[Corey]

Wow....


Just wow, that's it.

 

[Corey]

Actually reading that made me think it should have been one of those comics with a split panel...one side with the american soldiers and the chaplin praying that...and the other side with some muslim extremists praying "Allah, please help us kill the infidels", that's what it reminded me of.

 

[Yahweh]

“Lord, there are bad guys out there,” he says, bowing his head. “Just help us kill ‘em.”

Yeah, have we forgotten the enemy has been singing that same prayer for decades now...

[/cynicism]

 

[phildonnia]

Reminds me of this but a little less wordy.