Written by: Beck

The terrorists must think they've really hit on something special with this whole beheading foreigners policy. It's brutal and graphic and sends a message to the world that no one can mistake (namely, that terrorists are sub-human animals). Islamists have done it to an American in Iraq and in Saudi Arabia. Now terrorists are threatening to behead a South Korean civilian.

Try for one moment to divorce yourself from the extreme emotional response to hearing about or seeing a human beheaded. Ask yourself, what in hell can these fools be thinking? Take Nick Berg, killed shortly after pictures began emerging from prisoner mistreatment at Abu Ghraib. What was the goal of terrorists there? Were they really thinking the entire Coalition was just going to say, "Wow, screw this, we're going home." The impact was to take attention away from the Abu Ghraib scandal. A secondary impact was to reunite American sentiment against these nihilistic shitstains. The beheading in Saudi Arabia had a similar impact.

The terrorists goal is to so horrify and demoralize enemy civilians and leadership that they lose the taste for the fight. With that in mind, you'd expect them to come up with something worse. I mean, there are far worse ways to die than beheading. I'm not suggesting it's pleasant, but I am suggesting that it's going to be a relatively quick death. Having hit on something they like, however, these "people" lack even the creativity to come up with something worse. If you've watched the AEI film footage of torture perpetrated by the Iraqi regime under Hussein (head over to VodkaPundit if you just really want to see the snuff film), you know fully well that things can be much worse than a beheading. To summarize, these pathetic excuses of humanity are actually harming themselves through this graphic engagement of violence, reminding the entire world that there really are worse things than hordes of Americans attempting to inflict democracy on unsuspecting dictatorships.

Back to Korea. The South Korean government recently announced that they're going to increase their troop commitment in Iraq by 3600 soldiers, making them the third largest contingent after the United States and Great Britain. The Korean government has refused to make any alterations in their plans for additional troop deployment in light of the threats against their citizen.