Show me where I used a straw man. Need a dictionary?
Smooth gave nothing akin to a history - he gave an impossible, laughable hypothetical work of poor quality, alarmist fiction. I call bullshit as to my "not quite advocating" beheadings. I fully condemn them. I merely offered reasons as to why the beheaders might feel them justified. Reminds me of what my father used to say about fisherman who wanted to kill all the Great Whites because of the surfers and swimmers who die occasionally in the ocean - hey, don't go in the water. That's where they live. Same thing applies here. Don't want to get your head lopped off by Muslim extremists? Don't invade their territory, toots.
And yes, the beheadings were abominable. But no less no than Allied troops killing the innocent in and around Iraq. Unlike with my far-fetched shark analogy, where the hell were the people our military has killed supposed to go? How were they supposed to stay out of the way of our "liberation"? Everyone who's been beheaded has made a CHOICE to be there, fully knowing that they are going into the line of fire. Contractor, medic, general or otherwise, they made an informed, conscious decision to be there. The people who live there have no such choice.
And make no mistake about it, the vast majority of people the US is holding in various prisons due to this clusterf*ck are civilians, and quite a few are children. THAT's an abomination, guy, and not a straw man in sight.
