Good.
Tell me Bob, did you view the [actual] video?
If not I did (thanks to LindaSOG & Phil Dragoo) and lemme tell you, it was horrific.
I'm a crusty old bag who's seen a lot in my time, am not prone to emotionalism, per se; however, this video left me profoundly disturbed.
The savagery something I'd never witnessed first-hand as I'm certain is the same experience of most others.
An intended, *guaged* effect?
Might be, Bob, might be.
After viewing the thing I began to wonder, "Why would the masked idiots [in the film] risk galvanizing a nation like the United States of America much as the Japanese did when they attacked Pearl Harbor?"
It didn't make sense, add to that the Jewish factor & things really begin to distort.
The propaganda value of that film "for" the war effort far & away outweighed whatever "con" value it might've been intended.
So for me, that's when the seed of doubt was planted.
...& now it seems the thing may quickly unravel.
my tin foil is arcing and sparking...
so it is possible (nearly anything is!) that he was killed by an individulal/entity on our side - done to galvanize support for our war efforts...
horrific thought.
No, I have avoided both the video and the audio for a reason.
At any rate, I don't want to heap anything on this kid, but if he led a double life, it would be very interesting. The story is already "movie of the week" material.
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.
With a POS old man like Michael (ANSWER), I wonder what the son was up to.
We are outraged yes, but I am rather surprised at the lack of lead time this got with the media. Are the terrorists so sure that we are now weakened by the constant attacks on Bush and the war that they have no fear of us?
The butchering of the contractors didn't bring shock and awe back to them either. I am at a loss to figure out what the heck this is all about, but it is strange. Who was this poor guy, Nick Berg?