I am not saying killings are not required. They are and lots of them. I am saying mutilation of bodies, torture, rape, beheadings are all the trademarks of our enemies. The Japanese in WWII were famous for all of these things.
The razings of Palestinian homes tied to families of terrorists has not worked. Assasinations and outright killings of leaders, one right after another does. That to me is called self-defence.
Well, I am not advocating torture - unless we need information which will keep these lunatics from incinerating an American city with nuclear weapons.
Until a short time ago we executed criminals in the U.S. by hanging. In the Middle Ages, a good headsman with a large and sharpe ax was much to be preferred and was reserved for the aristocracy. So beheading, if properly done, is not necessarily cruel - certainly no worse than frying somebody in an electric chair. Thesse fiends are really beheading anyone - they are slitting their throats and sawing the heads off. SOmething quite different.
As for burial in a pigskin - well that's not really mutilating a body - just disposing of a corpse in a manner that is manifestly unacceptable to the creed of the lunatic executed.
Yes, razing homes in Palestine didn't have much of an effect. But I am positive that if they made the realtives of the suicide bombers pay with their lives, there would be fewer of them. Either the relatives of a suspected terrorist would turn him in, or they would do him in themselves.
Very feww people are willing to die for a cause - although they are more than willing to permit some else to do so.