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Originally Posted by Blender
I still think the worst are the ones of children being beheaded.
It looked like a badly made horror movie, because that is the only scenario in which we could accept the idea that men will cut other men's heads off. But the more I watched them and the more I knew the people of that culture, the more realistic the videos were.
Nobody wanted to acknowledge hostage taking and beheadings as a serious problem.
These videos are made on a daily basis and yet you NEVER see them in the news. The West is sitting still on it's knees as Islam holds a machete to our throats.
This IS happening.
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Blender, you sum up so much so well. I agree with it all. People can't process brutality. They'd rather pretend it doesn't exist than confront the situation.
In '06, we pushed into a no-go neighborhood and found beheader CDs where crowds of hundreds, even thousands, watched AQ behead kids in their early teens. Many of the people shouting had the same blank look in their eyes as the hostages.
I think most people, whether American citizens or native bystanders, lack the emotional strength to confront true brutality. It's very hard to look the monster in the face, and that's why atrocity is such an effective tool for keeping others in line.
Barn Owl
PS By pure chance, we got one of the beheaders, his superior, and their PSD in an airstrike about a month later. That post-strike analysis was the most satisfying thing I've ever put to paper.