A few days ago, after long deliberation and doubt, I downloaded and watched one of the recent beheading videos. What I saw made me sick to my stomach. That one human being can do that to another in cold blood is horribly disturbing in itself. But when you realise that the victim could have been literally anybody, that he was a completely innocent, completely accidental casualty, it becomes absolutely unfathomable. I thought I was a fairly pacifist and non-violent type, but al Zarqawi and his henchmen fully deserve to have their throats sawed through for that. And I would gladly do it.
A lot of people feel that those videos have no place in regular reporting and showing them only furthers the terrorists' goal of more media coverage. I disagree. I fervently wish more people saw them. Because believe you me, the images cannot and should not be ignored. Because the scum who perpetrate such acts would find the world a very difficult place to hide in if more people were hit with the reality of their atrocities.
There's a message in all of this about the human species as a whole being an experiment gone horrifically wrong, but that rant's going to need its own (and much longer) post.
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