[palmer]

He goes beyond the necessary brutality required by authoritarian Middle East dictators trying to suppress internal independence movements including Islamic radicalism. That's too bad, but not surprising. Do you seriously expect anybody less than a thug to pull that off?

[JasonC]

I seriously expect anybody who ruthlessly tortures and murders to be shot on sight by every decent human being. And I don't give a tuppenny damn where he lives or what he is trying to do. If you do, then your head is screwed on backwards. Toleration of such things is why some parts of the world suck and others do not.