You tell me which is which:
Frattini told reporters that Fabrizio Quattrocchi, one of four Italian security guards abducted outside Baghdad, was hooded when his kidnappers put a gun to his head.Who's brave and worthy of honor and respect? The mere "mercenary" who fought to look his killers in the eyes before he shuffled off this mortal coil, or the men who kidnapped him and shot him from behind a hood?"When the murderers were pointing a pistol at him, this man tried to take off his hood and shouted: 'Now I'm going to show you how an Italian dies'. And they killed him," Frattini said.
"He died a hero."
It's hard to see these murderers as anything but sub-human scum. It's hard, but I'm trying.
(HT: AlphaPatriot and Donald Sensing.)
Stop straining, Michael. Sub-human is exactly correct. He who would kill a defenseless civilian captive is no better than a jackal, and deserves no more consideration.
It's time to stop pretending that our Muslim enemies are entitled to the presumptions that properly apply to civilized men.
Good on you for trying to see the light of Christ in the murderers, Michael. These "sub-human scum" are God's children too. However, feel perfectly free to hate what they are doing to their fellow children of God.
That being said, the point about who is a hero and who isn't always brings me back to the lyrics of the song "America The Beautiful":
O Beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life.
After 9/11 I actually found myself thinking that the firemen and policemen who went back into the towers, even after one tower had collapsed, were stupid to go back in. But then I heard that song, and I was ashamed of myself. These were men who loved mercy more than life. Christ did the same. Fabrizio Quattrocchi loved his country and freedom more than himself; he was proved in liberating strife. Christ also did the same. To me, courage is embodied in the way Christ sacrificed himself for the freedom of others from the bondage of sin.