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Saturday, June 19, 2004
Another hostage beheaded
According to CNN, Paul Johnson was beheaded by his captors in Saudi Arabia, in the vein of what happened to Nicholas Berg in Iraq. Unfortunately, this has also sparked a great deal of "Let's go kill their civilians, see how they like it" attitudes to come to fruition. For example, this occured on PoliticsForum.org.
Basically, here's my reply to what the people on the aforementioned forum said, and it can probably apply to anyone who holds the "Abu Ghraib was justified" opinion.
Wow. There sure is a lot of vengeance being spewed around me right now. And I don't just mean on this forum. After having told my grandmother about the man's beheading, she's been on a "Pull out our troops and carpet-bomb the entire Middle East" rant.
But, seriously, I'm surprised at the amount of people calling for retribution. Sure, the people who did this deserve exactly what they give. But how do their actions justify our abusing Iraqi prisoners? Or the killing of their civilians?
spin doctor wrote:
F*** yea. They kill our civilians so we can kill theirs because we are better than them.
How are we better than them? If by 'them' you mean the terrorists, then by all means, I agree that we are better than them- until we start going around abusing prisoners, defying international law, and being complete and utter hypocrites. Just because terrorists kill US civilians does not mean that we should go around doing the same. How is it fine for us to do something that we condemn another for doing earlier!?
Take some advice from Gandhi: "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
Absolute Zero wrote:
This is precisely why I'm not losing sleep at night when photos of naked Iraqis surface! At least they still have their heads when it's all said and done.
So they have their heads. Big freakin' deal. Does death make a torture experience any less traumatic, humiliating, and dehumanizing? I'm sickened by the prison abuse, including the beating to death of a prisoner by a civilian contractor (I just heard about this last night on FOX).
In my opinion, the terrorists deserve absolute hell. But we shouldn't degrade ourselves to give it to them. The end does not justify the means.
And that's my two cents.
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