as i was driving in circles around chester county this morning (hopelessly lost), apparently a local family was grieving after their son was was decapitated on videotape in iraq. horrible. i can't imagine what it is like for a family to see that video.
i am dreading the inevitable right winger who claims that this somehow justifies the treatment of iraqis at abu ghraib. in fact, it shows just how damaging that story is. on the videotape the killers say "the dignity of the Muslim men and women in Abu Ghraib and others is not redeemed except by blood and souls." these guys, at least, are already using abu ghraib to justify violence against americans in iraq, if americans use this videotape to justify violence against iraqis, we will enter the territory pioneered by israelis and palestinians, caught in an endless tit-for-tat cycle or revenge killings.
and somehow a large portion of americans think we are somehow safer because we invaded iraq?
