Posted by
John Finnigan on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 6:22:28 PM
As I watched the Federal Bureaucrat pull the plug on the Utah Miner rescue I was reminded of Former President Jimmy Carter and his inept and cowardly response to Iran’s grab of U.S. diplomats and holding them for over a year in 1979. After the failed attempt at rescue and resulting loss of life, Carter tucked his tail between his legs and whimpered.
The feds, the State of Utah and the Murray mining company have essentially done the same.
Going after the miners is the right thing to do, even if it’s cost is tragic. Brave men and women are willing to go after their brothers underground because they know that their brothers and sisters would come after them if they were in the same situation.
Have we really come to the place where we write off lives because they are too expensive or too dangerous to get back?
What miner in his right mind would want to continue digging in the earth at a dirty and dangerous job when He know that if things go bad the company he works for and the government he pays for will write him off?
Creeping into my mind is the unfortunate thought that perhaps one factor in the cold analysis to abandon these me is the fact that three of them are Mexican. Lord I hope that isn’t a factor, but I’ve got to wonder.
John