This is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who's been our captive for some time now. If anyone deserves to be locked up and knocked around, it's this guy. I don't advocate torture, but go ahead and turn the heat up to 90, and feed him snickers with no milk or even water until he confesess. It's tasty, and it doesn't leave any marks!
Hearing this man express regret for killing children on 9/11 is incongruous and shocking, when contrasted with statements like this:
"I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan," said a Pentagon transcript of Saturday's hearing. "For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head."
Later in the hearing, he expresses regret for killing children.
He made no apologies for what he has done, but he did express remorse for the death of children in the September 11 attacks.
"I don't like to kill people," he said. "I feel very sorry they been killed kids in 9/11."
The world we live in is quite surreal. Is there really a military solution to counter a culture that creates men who believe killing children is wrong, but can brag about sawing off a man's head?
As a result of arrogant leadesrhip, and a lack of curiosity and oversight from the general public, we are now involved in something beyond a civil war in Iraq.
From this quarters report on the war in Iraq:
A new Pentagon report says some elements of the war in Iraq fit the definition of civil war, but the term "does not adequately capture the complexity of the conflict."
The report cites Shiite-on-Shiite violence; al Qaeda and Sunni insurgent attacks on coalition forces, and "widespread criminally motivated violence" as features that complicate the designation of civil war.
The report goes on to indicate things are not better, but actually getting worse.
It said the numbers of "attacks on and casualties suffered by coalition forces, the ISF [Iraqi security forces], and Iraqi civilians for the October-December reporting period were the highest for any three-month period since 2003."
Here is the rest of the article for the curious.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/ ... index.html
That the audacity and arrogance of our leaders, have resulted in untold casualties. Casualties that continue to this very minute, and will continue to take a toll, long past the end of this awful war. That their arrogance continues to go unpunished, is a testament to our unwillingness to step outside of our comfortable lives, and confront the myriad of challenges before us in a meaningful way.
