[jaguar]

The only thing that shocks me about all this is that they're not slowly torturing them to death and making sure the videos are well published.

It's not an easy one to solve, the al queda meme is a smart one, it can morph quickly to suit local conditions and outrages while still working towards a larger goal, that's a damn hard thing to kill.

The US have made this the mess it is, they're about the only ones who can stop it now. Stay the course in Iraq, reduce presence as fast as possible, lean on the governments of Saudi and Egypt like all hell, fucking stamp on the isreali government until they move, push some constructive economic development agendas across the middle east and tell france to do something abou tthe fucking ghettos and we might just get somewhere.

It was an downhill battle, now it's an uphill one.