Sorry to again Comment on a Development so Early. But I Must Comment on This. *They of Al Qaida just BeHeaded One of U.S.!*

I Thought their Latest Tape just Before this One was Outrageous Enuff! And it Is! ("Bin Laden Again Spoke,-What he Said").

But This One of Course Tops and Takes it to New Lows!

It's an Al Qaida Tape, if Not specifically from Bin Laden himself. Our Fellow American Captive is Shown, a Usual Type Al Qaida Statement is Read, -from a Masked, Fist or Weapons Raising Bunch of them. (Though This particular One is Not Fist or Weapons Raising, but at Least One is Holding a Weapon)

And Though my Newscast Didn't Show his Actual Beheading Itself, -Word on This and Other Newscasts is that the Al Qaida Tape Not Only Mentions, but Actually Shows, the BeHeading in Itself!

Abuses in Iraq by Some Americans are Given as the perhaps Convenient Justification.

Now I Think People on Both Sides Should be Careful, -*Not* to Get into an Escalating Cycle of Revenge, Retaliation, and Reprisal! Thats the Mutual Problem Cycle the Isrealis and Palestinians Often Find Themselves Locked Into! (Value Judgements concerning Who's Right or Wrong in that, -Not here Being Made). Let U.S. Try to Avoid Falling Into the Same Trap! To a Substantial Extent at Least, -Some of the Classic "Turn the Other Cheek", can be In Order. We of the Free World West can in Many Ways, -Take the Lead in Being the Better Man! Of course there's the Danger of them Misinterpreting that as Weakness too! And in No Way shud such Kinder Gestures on our Part, -Soften or Weaken this Fight for our Life!

But a Certain Measure of Retaliation and Response, is also in Order, -for an Outrage such as This!

Just as Regards their Actions Toward our Fallujah Four!, -Not All that Long Ago. (We Shud have perhaps Done Less Negotiating / Pullbacks, there).

Another Recent Outrageous Development!, -which somehow Got By "My Occasion to Mention", -is a Statement Put Out by the al Sadr Crowd. Much the Same as the Recent Bin Laden Bounty Placeing Outrage! As Concerns our Troops. Even More Particularly Galling in This!, -is What their Statement Said in Reference to our Female Soldiers! Which was that Anyone Who Captures a Female U.S. Soldier, -Can Keep Her as his Personal Slave! You Know Whatall that can Entail! THESE ARE OUR WOMENFOLK! We Shud be Alarmed and Up in Arms! One of the Things I was Most Disgusted About concerning Sept. 11th, -was What they Did to our Stewardesses up there!

"Peace Thru Strength!", "Armed to the Teeth!", "By Force of Arms!", and "A Defense Second to None!" Love those Phrases! And They certainly Very Very Much Apply!, -in These New Circumstances and Times!

God if the Peaceniks were in Charge, -We'd Never Have a War! <img src="images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> Such from They Does Not Bode Well, -When it Comes to a *Neccessary* War! Thats the Difference that they Never Seem to Know or Get! With the Society and Public Listening to Them, When it Does, -That's Much the Same as if They were in Charge!

But we Must also be Careful Not to be Led and Egged On Into various Fights, -by them! I've Got to Thinking Lately, that Sept. 11th was perhaps in Part an "Egg U.S. On Into a Fight" Attempt, on their Part. While that Certainly Called for our various Strong Responses, and Ever Watchfulness, -We Shud be Careful about Cases where they may be Leading U.S. Down a "Belligerent Garden Path", to Suit their Own Ends. That said and Kept in Mind, We Must Stay Alert, Strong, and Not Soften or Weaken either!

uday and his fedayeen got a Lot of their Jollies out of Beheading People! This Doesn't Prove some of their Involvement in Today's Outrage. But it is some Circumstantial Evidence which Could Point towards their Involvement or Direction.

It certainly Occurred About Iraq. And it Did Occur Within Iraq as well. And there is a Meetup and Melding between the Two Enemy Groups, over there.

However Done, -The Outrage was Still Done! *On* U.S.! By They of that Other, Enemy, Side!

In a Way, It's now *They* who've Stupidly Done Something to Disserve their Own Interests, and World Image! Via this True and Glaring Outrage!

While I Think that a "Better Manned, -Breaking of the Cycle of Back and Forth Revenge", -Has to Enter into the Picture at Some Point, -Without Any Weakening in This our Fight for our Very Survival!, -I also Think that Today's Particular (In Our Face) Outrage!, -is Something that Must be Duly and Definitely Responded to! And Not just Go Un-Answered!

They and the Rest of the World are Again Watching! And we Can't Afford to Have them Misinterpreting our Response as Weakness! Notwithstanding How They Criticize our various Tough Responses.

Weakness or it's Appearance is Worse! Were we to Bug Out now from Iraq, -We Havn't Seen Anything of the Contempt and Disrespect!, -That We'd be Viewed With for It!!!!! All Today's Anti-American Talk as Regards our Tuffness, -Will Look like Child's Play in Comparison! Don't U.S. Fall for that Soft Bait!!! Weakness again is Even Worse!

It can be said Truthfully and/or Not so Truthfully, -that the Iraqi Abuses by Some of our Own, -are Behind Today's Outrage. While it would Certainly Have Been Better, and Proper, -for Some of our Personnel to Have NOT Done Such! -It's also a Fact that They on our Enemy Side, Conveniently Milk this Up, for All it's Worth! They are Not so Nobly Angelic, -as They may now be Making Themselves Out to be!

Even in the Abscence of such Impropriety by Some of U.S., -Our Enemies Likely would Have Done such Outrage anyway, -sometime on their Own! Just Like the Bombs they Plant. And the Planes they Crash into Occupied Buildings. Now since Some of our Personnel just Stupidly and Wrongly Handed them One, -They of our Enemy Side are of course Playing it Up for All it's Worth. But is it Purely a Genuine Outrage over What Some of our Personnel have Wrongly Done?! Not So Much! And Not So Fast! From These who Love and Want to Die Anyway!

Again in Sumup, -We Must Respond to this Outrage! But Without Indefinitely Joining our Enemy, in a Recurring Cycle of Revenge upon Revenge!

It's at Least been Said, by one of the Abu Ghraib Abusers, that some of such was Done in Response to What was Done, or May Have been Done, -Toward our Jessica Lynch. This is at Least Understandable Enough. Go Back to the Time when it at Least Well Seemed, -as though She was Raped. While such a Reprisal Still Isn't Right, -It was at Least a Good Bit Understandable.

We Say we're Responding to Outrages such as September 11th. They Say They're Responding to our Response. It can Keep Going Back and Forth. Which Came First here, the Chicken or the Egg? Who is More or Less Right, Who is More or Less Wrong? And On What? Who Essentially Threw the First Punch?

In Sum, in my Opinion, -They are Quite Wrong for Many a Thing. But we in the West weren't exactly so Noble in our Decades Long Lollygagging, Often Not Being at our General Moral Best, and So On. I Do Not however Buy, our Opponents Longstanding Conspiratorial Charges, that we Start Wars Thruout the World, and So Forth.

One of our Fellow Americans was Be-Headed by Them, -Today!!!! I Think and Know that This is Certainly an Outrage Indeed!

(Bounty, -I am Nominally Responding to you here, -in Order to Properly Place This, in the Continueing Thread) [color:"black"] [/color] [email]bountyhunter[/email]