Your not thinking like a terrorist, your thinking like soft white westerner...
The militant islamists would do somthing like this to up the ante; to show their followers, and those that cower in their shadow, that they are more brutal, more evil than the Americans could ever be.
The "con" value is a bonus to them.
I predict that they will relatively soon do the same on a young little girl or perhaps a young woman. And release a videotape.
"By their fruits, ye shall know them"
True-true, no use denying that.
Always make a mess of myself trying to think like a Liberal-Socialist, too.
"...your thinking like soft white westerner..."
A suspicious soft white westerner (who's really not all that "soft," a'tall), OK.
"The militant islamists would do somthing like this to up the ante; to show their followers, and those that cower in their shadow, that they are more brutal, more evil than the Americans could ever be."
Possible.
But they'd be demonstrating a lethal lack of knowledge insofar as history's concerned, too.
I mean there's Pearl Harbor & most recently 911; both, proved completely disasterous for the enemy.
I may believe the Islamofacists are a lot of things -- all bad -- my friend; but, "stupid" would never be one of those beliefs, either.
"The "con" value is a bonus to them."
As this plays out, you might just wind-up absolutely correct about that.
Time will tell.
If so, the animals will live to rue the day they were born.
Might as well give their soul(s) to Allah, right now.
...'cuz their asses are ours.