Personal Narrative-Assisted Suicide Terrorism Report

“Proceed with the kill order.” The commander’s words echo through my head. For a moment, it feels as if time has stopped and I am now faced with perhaps the hardest decision of my career with only five to ten minutes to either agree or call off the missile. In this mission the targets are known terrorist Awali al -Shabab and Ibrahim al- Hakim. The two targets arrived at the target building a few minutes ago, where two additional suicide bombers were already located preparing their explosive vests for a possible unidentified threat of suicide attacks. The perimeter of the target site consist of a possible hospital or madrasah along with a mosque. The hospital has not been confirmed to be operating or to be a hospital at all, but there has been activity of women with young children In and out of the building. If sent the missile will destroy everything within its radius which will include the target house, the hospital and the dwelling to the North of the target. It is now up to me to make the decision to issue the order to arm and release the missile or belay the order. Twenty seconds go by and words refuse to come out my mouth, another few seconds and still nothing. I feel my heart heavy as I commence to say, “launch the missile and eliminate the wanted targets.”
I understand what
you’re thinking, how could you do something so cruel? Hard decisions pass us by everyday but what is best to be done must be done. Innocent people will die, I understand that, but if what is done today is not proceeded with in the future more innocent people will die. Each individual in that house has the power to kill many people, and if left living today they will each preform just that. If I let them walk away today, I would not be able to live with myself knowing that I would be just waiting for the next attack to take place.
If I did not make the right choice today not only would the world suffer but I would suffer the consequences as well and would be charged with dereliction of duty, would have to spend the rest of my career at the Fort Leavanworth Military Prison in Leavanworth, Kansas and receive a dishonorable discharge. In a few second my career could completely be over for making the wrong choice.
Innocent people should not have to pay the price for the immoral decisions of the terrorist, therefore they should not be sacrificed just so that the terrorist get killed.
The suicide bombers were in action preparing their explosive vest, they were planning something in which more people would be sacrificed then with this missile. We do not have the choice to save everybody, the only option we have is to decide if the terrorist die today and whether we are willing to kill more innocent people then what could have been necessary. The innocent people are not the target, the terrorist are they just happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. These terrorists must be eliminated
today.
Being the person behind these harsh decisions is tough, but somebody’s got to do it. Either choice is complicated but one must be chosen. We either kill the terrorist today and sacrifice innocent people, or we let them run free to kill more innocent people. We must save as many human lives as possible, for this reason we make the choice where there is the least amount to sacrifice, if that involves killing the innocent people surrounding the house , it is tragic but they passed honorably and may they rest in peace.