It doesn't matter if "the enemy will quit if we do?", or anything of that sort...it doesn't matter one bit.

We are in this war, purportedly, because we and our style of government are better then theirs is (I say "purportedly", because I think that this is not the reason, but just a justification).

Justifying our actions by noting how they act removes that high moral ground that we claim...if we attempt to remove them by using the same barbaric behaviors that we are removing them for, then we become them...and then, what's the point? Remove one set of barbarians so that we can replace them with our own barbarians?

That is the unfortunate, some would say, consequence of claiming the high moral ground...we're "good", they're "evil"...so we have to walk the talk.

Anything less and we deserve the same fate that we are meting out over there.

Fish on...

Todd