I just heard on the radio that "an Arabic website" has posted video of an American being beheaded as revenge for this prison nonsense. (And no, I don't care that a few Iraqis got "treated like women" or "hoo-mill-e-a-ted".)

A brief message to the people responsible: You have now joined the ranks of the Imperial Japanese Army in thinking it's cool to behead our men. Open your history books (assuming that you have them and that you can read, two very big assumptions) and turn to the events of August, 1945. Even as the Japanese war machine was grinding to an eventual halt, they lost two cities in the world's first atomic strikes. As Walter Russell Mead points out, we firebombed Tokyo and others to the ground because it was thought that we were facing a bestial enemy.

You people don't even have the ancient traditions of Japan and its culture to offer as reasons to spare your worthless lives.

The Country Pundit's solution? Escalate the violence. Our soldiers and our civilians over there will know that they face a medieval execution if they surrender, and will fight with further aggression, knowing that there is no surrender to the likes of Islamists. I suggest we begin by inflicting pain on these people. There will be collateral damage. That's fine. I've been losing patience with these people (and the apparent unwillingness of the American people to fight dirty) for quite some time, and I want a permanent solution to this issue.

I am not disgusted by some photographs of naked Iraqis who have been captured in battle against our forces. I don't care that one of them wore a leash and was photographed with a woman holding it. I do not perceive the events at Abu Ghraib as some sort of "stain" on our honor.

I do, however, think that it is imperative that we avenge the execution of our people. The International Committee for the Red Cross, Amnesty International, and the European human rights industry be darned, the beheading of Americans can not be tolerated. Retaliation can begin with the people at Abu Ghraib.

The enemy must fear us and should never see an American President "apologizing" for American forces in pursuit of operational intelligence.

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