Keep American Moral Standards High

The beheading of an American is yet another tragic incident in our new terror driven world. There should be plenty o' outrage. Yet I've already seen comments along the lines that the beheaders will somehow get soft coverage, or be less reviled than the Americans involved in the prison abuse situation.

Well, the moral high ground ain't cheap. If you want to lord over the world as we want to then your standards must be high and consistent. You can't have it both ways, be outraged at the terrorists and then use their style/standards and expect not to be criticized.

Should we expect beheadings from terrorists? Well, they're terrorists, I suppose so. Should we be outraged? Yes, but then again they are terrorists.

What we should do is worry about our own problems. We need not get into a climate where our abuse is measured on a terrorists moral scale.