The Horror

From Michael Yon, via NRO, linked by The King:

The official reported that on a couple of occasions in Baqubah, al Qaeda invited to lunch families they wanted to convert to their way of thinking. In each instance, the family had a boy, he said, who was about eleven years old. As Lt. David Wallach interpreted the man’s words, I saw Wallach go blank and silent. He stopped interpreting for a moment. I asked Wallach, “What did he say?” Wallach said that at these luncheons, the families were sat down to eat. And then their boy was brought in with his mouth stuffed. The boy had been baked. Al Qaeda served the boy to his family.

So for all of you Live Earthers out there, and you Economic Doomsters, and you Universal Health Care Now agitators, and you No Blood For Oil pacifists...Otto has a very short but direct message:

The Clear And Present Danger, The Horror, is right in front of you. Stop whatever else you are doing, right this minute, and pay attention to it, lest you be destroyed by it. Everything else is a very distant second place.