[jjm2111]

This is old, right after 9/11. Read the whole thing and see how public opinion fares right now, a scant 2.5 years later. We see more anguish on our part about a bunch of Iraqis with bags on their heads than the beheading of our own citizens.

We 'arrest' militants and hold cease-fires with people who want to kill us. What is the problem here?

We didn't start this war, they did! Why all the hand-wringing? /rant

[thoughtomator]

A good reminder how an obsession with frivolity (any Jackson, Scott Peterson, Kobe Bryant, etc.) blinds us to mortal threats. It was only the day before 9/11 that Chandra Levy was the top story.

[cvq3842]

Interesting post!

So much has changed. I think, at the heart of it, most Americans STILL don't understand that we are still under a substantial threat. I hope it doesn't take another, more horrific, attack to get people to understand. I pray we are never attacked again. I fear we will be.

[Old Sarge]

I could agree more with this article...

but not by much.

I still know that rage.

When is it MY turn?

[backhoe]

I agree.

We all need a dose of some righteous anger.

Crosslinking to the Berg beheading:

-The Berg Beheading- some links--

[RAY]

Understand, one and all, it is them or us, period!

Denial and fear (we) are our greatest enemy - we need to face it head on -- which means, destroy every vestige of the enemy -- all of it!

[lilylangtree]

I'm still one p*ssed off angry American over the lack of media and congressional interest of an American being decapitated while hearings occurred on Abu Ghraib. Whipping America while ignoring islamics is fueling my righteous anger. Further, I open up today's local paper and what do I read: "Iraqis want death for Abu Ghraib jailers." Where were these same Iraqis when Nick Berg died. The deafening silence from the islamic world is beyond contempt. These bottom feeding pigs nourish and protect their corrupt culture to produce murderers and then expect the rest of the world to bail them out. And nosepicking politicians and their lapdogs, mainstream media, oblige them. B*llsh*t!

[sheik yerbouty]

We should have destroyed the enemy without apologies.