It's not about human rights. It's about opening our eyes and seeing we're not that much different from them. We give our 19 year boys weapons and send them off to become casualties of our war on terror - like their war on America. Do you agree with what they do when they catch our people? When we catch theirs, are we really going to behave like them? We call them barbarians?
I don’t remember who said it, but there's no point arguing against emotion. I understand, you have kids and I don't, but even if I did, I'd want justice not death. I can't imagine ever wishing something worse on someone than the slitting of one's throat... That reminds me of Daniel Pearl. Could you do something like that to a man?
Hello Sidney,
You better watch out. When I said these same things the insults flew in from the arm chair inquisitioner who talks a game behind a keyboard knowing he'll never have to follow through. Frankly, given his complete lack of care about 20 dead Newtown kids I think a lot of it is about hating on Muslim terrorists for him, not caring about child killers per se.
It's always been a perplexing irony for me that people can be so willing to become what they claim to hate and not understand what they seek to become, that they are accepting the same sickness that drove them to the depths of this loathing. As I said in my first post in this thread I feel the same need emotionally to get personal justice on the killers in kind as they did to children and families. If it happened to any of my boys it's hard to imagine any possible way I could hold back. It would probably be satisfying...for a moment. On every other level it would be wrong as well as personally disturbing and self-destructive.
People who have never had to face a killing have no idea what it takes out of a person to see it up close, never mind do it. Even soldiers, trained to kill, programmed to believe all the righteousness of national defense, the just cause, the normalcy of killing in war, absorbing the warrior code, of being a patriot...nearly always come back from the real thing changed for the worse, refusing to talk about or remember what they saw, often disturbed in various degrees, many times with deep psychological issues. Yet some seat cushion boasters on their MACS run on about the will and pleasure of performing a theoretically endless torture.
It's so easy to be glib when one is sitting home warm, enjoying a beer, and performing for the internet crowd without knowing what it really takes to do such a thing. I could never boast or be proud of craving revenge to the point of barbarism. Being emotionally pushed into feeling a need like that is all about the deepest inner pain, experiencing a crushing emotional disaster. Anyone who can feel good about experiencing all of that and enjoy being barbaric to a living being, no matter who, has the heart of a terrorist.
Fortunately for NUTZ, I don't believe he either has the balls to do it or the temperament to come out of it feeling normal afterward. That's a good thing NUTZ...otherwise you'd be one of them.
Merlot
