Reply #2: We should all be aware of one thing. [View All]

[liberalmike27]

Beheading is a way that they punish people in their country. It seems a gross way to do things, but it amounts to killing people, just as we do when we feel criminal acts have done here. I do not support the death penalty here, or there, but it is par for the course in the middle east. Hell, they cut off hands, feet, and other things for various crimes too. Primitive, yes, but dead is dead.

In a discussion the other night, my mom was falling for the hype on the two dead soldiers in Iraq, that were mysteriously (I can't figure this one out, why didn't they fight knowing what was going to happen, why were they out there alone?) kidnapped. She commented on how terrible they were for mutilating the bodies. I asked her what she thought happened when we dropped bombs on houses. The truth is, many of the men, women, and children that are civilians, especially the kids, are uninvolved in any sort of attacks on our citizens. Often they are coerced into the acts by the insurgents. Just the same, when our huge bombs hit, they are splattered, and it is very inhumane. One has to decide if we too are monsters for not doing things with a smaller, more organized force that might spare civilian casualties. But we enter into these events, these strikes from the sky knowing full-well that we are going to splatter little children.

We are trained by television brainwashing to view these people as unworthy victims. But they are someone's family, and many deeply care about them. The longer we stay, and do this, the more people will hate us. The extreme hatred that we cause by splattering people, and the frustration of the freedom fighters there must be tremendous, and I suppose if you look at things from their side, which we rarely do, we are just as bad as they are.