"And finally the supreme idiots - the "Bring our troops home now" dumbf***s. Do these asswipes actually believe that if the USA came home we would be SAFER?!?!?! That if the US left the region all of the muslim extremist freaks would just settle down and go back to playing tiddly-winks and holding Koran quote trivia contests? THis is so wrong that I have no respect for the people that say this." You have a singular lack of ability to respect other people, then. It is a truism that the political anger of the average person is directly related to what immediately affects them in their daily lives. When the average Arab no longer sees the United States ham-handededly messing with their political system, then the United States will begin to fade in their minds. That has happened in the past. It will happen in the future. But then, that would go against your premise, which is that (a) You are angry, right, and ready for revenge, and (b) Those who oppose you are wrong and (c) Your enemies (a broad term encompassing even those who disagree with your political opinions) are implacable, evil, and wholly non-human. In your bloodthirsty cry for revenge, in which a thousand of "them" die for every one of "us" (regardless of any legal due process), I wonder if, were a Muslim country to succesfully occupy America, that you would be the one self-righteously beheading one of the occupiers in revenge for the wrongs they have rained on your head. When I read about the death of Mr. Johnson, I felt inexpressible sadness. But I did not for one moment imagine that the grief suffered by his family was any less than the grief suffered by ANY family of someone who has died. The calls for revenge on this board and elsewhere are perpetuations of the same kind of violent idiocy that leads to these kinds of killings. Do not forget that Johnson's killing was in revenge for other killings, and that those killings were in revenge for other killings. It is satisfying to feel angry, and it is satisfying to call for revenge, but it is not right. Your closing statement, that "Anyone who doesn't want to fight back and kill a thousand of them for every one of us killed is the friend of the enemy" shows that your morals are pretty much on the same level as those exhibited by Johnson's killers. Why? Look at it this way. Johnson was killed because he was (a) a Westerner and (b) a technician for Apache attack helicopters. Both of those meant that he was, to the members of al Quaeda, a "friend of the enemy". Innocent pe