I've seen the video and have expressed my own outrage at it. There is simply no excuse for this sort of barbaric behavior.
That being said, our "retaliation" should by what we should have done in the first place: wipe out al Queda. I thought that's what all the chest puffing and bullshit was about when we went into Afghanistan? We didn't even put out THAT fire and we started another in Iraq.
While I feel for this guy and his family and hate how some of the media has handled this, I have a feeling this guy would have been killed anyways and this was their excuse.
I also feel this video was used to fuel more support for the war in Iraq and this war on terrorism. Call me a cynic, but I feel like the media and possibly the administration are trying to use this as a just a propaganda piece instead of the tragedy it truly is.
I watched an interview with Tim Russert last night and liked what he had to say (paraphrasing): "People expect the US to carry a higher set of morals and not just be the world's policeman, but the world's moral leader and we can't be that leader if we stoop to the barbarianism of these people" (I'll have to watch the Daily Show again when it repeats to get the exact quote)
EDIT -- oops, not sure why I typed Chris Matthews there instead of Tim Russert...
Last edited by SykkBoy at May 12 2004, 01:51 PM
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