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March 22, 2003
Think what we're asking Our blog buddy Salam managed to post from Baghdad as recently as Friday morning. Watching his countrymen on the BBC surrendering, he said, "yes it is better for them to do that but still seeing them carrying that white flag makes something deep inside you cringe." I felt immediate pangs of empathy.
Now, Salam's the kind of guy whose ideas of "macho" run more to the Village People than to Saddam. Even he has trouble taking surrender, much less what a soldier might feel. Surrendering might be the smart thing to do, and US making them surrender may be necessary, but we should keep in mind that this surrender runs counter to our basic hard-wired programming down in the deep recesses of our mammal brains.
