12 May 2004 at 08.50.13 ZuluTime
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Posted by Gremlin [24.8.27.194 - c-24-8-27-194.client.comcast.net] on 12 May 2004 at 08.50.13 ZuluTime:
In Reply to: Not much to say, really posted by MondoHebe on 12 May 2004 at 04.33.38 ZuluTime:
Many people...have or will read incorrect assumptions into this event
Can't argue with that. It's looking like Berg wasn't in the military after all; he was just a civilian in the wrong country at the wrong time. Which does make a slight difference, to me.
I have seen enough grisly death in my life to not need to see more.
Fair enough. But I dig horrorfilms. And, of course, I've been desensitised by the fiction to treat factual snuff the same way. Just ask any parents' group for evidence of that; I'm sure they'll go to great lengths to evade and pontificate about whatever scares them these days.
We provoke them merely by existing as free Westerners.
Probably. It certainly blurs the line between muslims and other theists. Could be a trend....
--Gremlin