[Fury]

In his last e-mail to family hours prior to the initial "decapitation" airstrikes, Warren raised concerns that he and other members of the group were being manipulated by the Iraqi government.

Ahhh. The light bulb clicks on, so to speak.

[Jabba the Nutt]

Well, you can rest assured that Warren wasn't de-capitated in the 'de-captitation' strikes, because you first must have capitations to be de-capitated.

[Wilhelm Tell]

I have to wonder what sort of mental breakdown one would have to go through to act so foolishly. I'm not a shrink (I don't even play one on tv), but I am wondering if this is similar to the so-called "Stockholm Syndrome." The difference is that people SEEK to become hostages so they can identify with their captors. Why? Do these people feel like failures and they have a chance to feel powerful by doing grandiose, dangerous stunts for Saddam? Maybe identifying with a bully gives them a vicarious sense of power. Maybe they wish they were made of serner stuff so that they, too, could be bullies. Failing that, they are satisfied to enable bullies. That and the ideal of Christian love has been perverted into a mawkish humanitarianism whereby one gains moral merit to the extent one offers "love" to those who don't deserve it. This then feeds into moral relativism by making the very lack of goodness into a value that one must sacrifice to. Thus in the name of "love," goodness must be anihilated by evil, while evil becomes its own justification. This mixture of nihilism and "love" is indeed an ugly spectacle.

[Contra]

I thought the whole idea of being a human shield was to die. Guess I missed something. In his last email to family, Leo "Jar Jar Binks" Warren was heard to exclaim "somebody might die?"

[Tom Bombadil]

Warren raised concerns that he and other members of the group were being manipulated by the Iraqi government.

A little education goes a long way. Anti-war weenies aren't always smart enough to "get it" when given the chance.