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[apocalypsos]

I just saw the video of the American being decapitated by the Iraqi extremists that's up on Ogrish.com. All I have to say is just ... ugh. And I have a strong stomach when it comes to mind, so the act itself isn't what disgusts me. (Be forewarned if you're going to go see it ... it's forty seconds long of them literally sawing on his neck. And just when you think you've seen enough, his screams just cut off.)

Let me put it this way. The first person to so much as imply that now we have to retaliate back at the Iraqis runs the risk of a first-rate TP-issue bitch-slap. "An eye for an eye" works just fine until you realize if you keep it up, everyone in the kingdom ends up a one-eyed whiny freak.

When. The FUCK. Is all this going to end?

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[pepperjackcandy.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to figure out what you meant, that's all.

You said,

Yes, I'm sure that there are US soldiers who have made their victims suffer more than this man suffered, but the deliberate infliction of pain, on videotape, for the sole purpose of gloating in front of the entire world is a wonderful new level of stupidity. Hurray for the information age.

Which I took to mean that you were specifically talking about the videotaping, not just the atrocity.

That's all. Honest.

[budclare.livejournal.com]

Not just the videotaping, the whole damn thing. The incident was, to my mind, an escalation of the atrocity stupidity. It's as if one layer of atrocity isn't enough; they (meaning any assholes who commit atrocities, not those of any specific country) seem to be stacking atrocity on top of atrocity, trying to see who can make the tallest pile of stupidity. In my opinion, the (inept) beheaders currently have stacked the atrocities the highest. (Proportionally, anyway. Such a small group of people can only cause so much damage, so they obviously can't be compared to, for instance, the perpetrators of the Holocaust.) That doesn't mean this is the worst atrocity, certainly, but most atrocities aren't intended to be made public. They used to be dirty little secrets that people made an effort to hide. (And before someone tries to argue with that statement, yes, sometimes atrocities are meant to be public on a limited scale, usually for the purposes of frightening people, but not public on a large scale. That takes a special kind of brazenness. I don't think that's a word, but tough.)

I can't believe how much time I've wasted on this, all because of one little off-hand remark. This is why I usually avoid subjects like this like the plague. It's just tiring.