The Murder of Nicholas Berg

I have spent the better part of a day mulling over the execution of Nick Berg, of which the Islamists seem to be so proud. Striking, isn't it, that these sub-human murderers are afraid to show their faces. How brave and noble of them to kill innocents in the name of Allah, while simultaneously hiding behind a disguise. One is reminded of the worst of the Klan, running around not in Birmingham and Selma, but projected proudly and on a global scale.

While we here in America have been devoting weeks of high-powered committee meetings and gallons of ink to some photos of hooded Iraqi thugs jerking off in front of a girl, these freaking animals HAVE BEEN SAWING THE HEAD OFF AN INNOCENT CIVILIAN. He screamed for the first THREE OF FIVE knife strokes, as his executioners shouted "God is Great."

Meanwhile, our press attacks our transgression (see yesterday's post for some context), as al-Jazeera predictably celebrates the brutality, airing it unedited on its web site.

Consider this as well: these very Islamist barbarians have promised more of the same for all of us - you, me, our families and friends - if we don't submit to their will. And if we do submit to their will, we get the same treatment anyway, as evidenced by the rule of the Taliban and every other sharia-based system. In short: submit or we will savage you, and we will savage you after you submit, too.

This is an enemy that must be defeated, in the same way we defeated the totalitarian regimes of the last century.

Finally, remember this as well: John Kerry has promised to fight terrorism as a law enforcement problem rather than a military campaign (AKA, the "Clinton Model"). Yeah, a few subpoenas and grand jury indictments will put the fear of allah into people willing to saw off living human heads because they are Americans.