terrorism

Two brief observations from the recent hotel bombings in Jordan.

The bombers attacked three hotels that are popular with westerners; this is most likely to allow them the opportunity to kill Americans without actually going to America. The result? Of 56 fatalities, 53 are from Muslim countries: 33 Jordanians, 6 Iraqis, 2 Bahrainis, an Indonesian and a Saudi. Additionally, they killed two Chinese and a staggering one American. Though we at The Great Satan occasionally hit our own troops (or the Canadians, journalists, etc.) we at least kill more Iraqis than allies.

Second, I really enjoyed what the Jordanian crowd chanted at a rally the next day: “Burn in hell, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi!” I cannot think of a better use for that phrase, but I can’t image a crowd chanting something like that in unison. I guess Jordanian protesters are more skilled than their American counterparts. At UT, they rarely strayed beyond “What do we want? No war! When do we want it? Now!” and “Dick Chen-ey has got to go, hey hey, ho ho” and finally “no _(justice)_(recount)_(jobs for slacker anthropology majors)_, no peace!”