Spoils o' war

Right around the time our country invaded Iraq, a caller on Bill O'Reilly's radio show asked him what was going to happen to all the oil in Iraq. "We take it all," he told her. "Spoils o' war."

He hasn't changed his attitude. A few days ago, he had this to say:

Fallujah should not exist. It should have been leveled a long time ago. Just leveled. That town should have been made an example of years ago....That town--everybody should have been evacuated and flattened.

This is O'Reilly's answer to the insurgency in Iraq. Flatten 'em. Whether it is Vietnam or Iraq, there is a stubborn resistance among many to grasp the simple fact that the more you destroy people's homeland, the more likely they are to continue killing you. And hating you. As for the O'Reilly oil deal, he is advocating lawlessness, kind of interesting for such a big law-and-order guy (well, a law-and-order guy who threatens to kill his guests). So, using his logic, if I go to his office building, beat the hell out of him and then take his money, that's okay.