No matter which side someone is on, only evil people torture children, even in revenge.. It's really easy to pick out the bad guys here.
it's easy for some, but some just aren't able to see anyone as a "bad guy"
instilling fear for their own families into Islamic "warriors" is a great idea and something they already understand.......I'm all for it!
Naaaaaa....
They're just misunderstood. If we would just listen to them and do everything they say, they would like us and we would all stand on a hill and sing "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing," just like in that Coke-a-cola ad in the '70s.
Good thing CindyDawg doesn't live in Chechnya. Muslims hate dogs and consider them filthy animals.
It is a terrible act - but - if terrifying retribution were to be carried out with resolve for a long enough time, the terrorist cause, recruits and jihad would cease. This is an effective and historically proven tactic.
The same thing is done in every war by deliberate design or inevitable mistake. In modern total war, such as WWII, families, babies, hospitals, schools, nurseries and all other kinds of facilities were de facto targets by deign of being in the target area (i.e., civil population in cities). So, I believe, the difference between what appears to be an impending and savage response by the Russians is little different from what we are already used to accepting as a given action of war.
The image of the dead baby being carried out of the Murrah building and the chilling picture of the people trying to get air in the floors above the fire at the WTC (there appears to be a woman holding a baby in one photo) are evidence enough to me that this deliberate child-killing tactic is being used on us already.
The real question is, are we willing to go to ANY lengths to stop this assualt on Western civilization and protect ourselves (and our children)? At the least, we MUST abandon politically correct limits on military actions. We MUST deny the enemy the freedom to define the limits of warfare (i.e., holy this, holy that, extremely holy whatever). Finally, we MUST act with overwhelming ferocity and anihilate the enemy, and his support, wherever they are found. To do less is to continue to encourage the barbarism of Islamofascism.
The great canard in current thinking is that by brutal actions we become like our enemies. This is laid to rest when the question is examined in light of what we, and they, are like in times of peace. For my money, life in America is as far from the continuing brutality and the low, mean animal barbarism of Islam as you can get. For these animals, the murder and torture never ends. This is why ancients were honest enough to admit to, and practice, the ruthless extermination that is needed in the face of implacable, inhuman enemies.
We can do no less if we wish to survive.
The families of the terrorists are still alive, and it would seem that they are free and well. The torture seems to be limited to threats of violence, hardly comparable to the cowardly, murderous rampage of their relatives.