I - still - have - no - words.
Fortunately, others do. Omri:
For the past couple of weeks, the thought of people committing physical and psychological abuse in our names so shocked America that legitimate political voices were calling for the impeachment of high officials during a time of war. Meanwhile, thousands of our enemies - and (although I know it's not fashionable to say these days) the enemies of civilization - dance in celebration at the most gruesome, inhumane, barbarous acts imaginable. Acts right out of pre-civilization. Public massacres and mutilations done in front of thronging and adoring crowds. This isn't 10th century stuff any more - we're talking a thousand years BC, where entire towns were razed in the onslaught of senseless armies killing for no discernable purpose except that's what their gods told them too. No pretense of holiness. No pretexts of reclaiming land or power. Death for death's sake.
You can't reason a man - or a culture - out of what he hasn't been reasoned into. What we're witnessing in the streets of Gaza and Iraq goes far beyond the horizon of anything that can be deliberated and discussed. There is no good faith, there is no common ground - hell, there are no shared values. None. Our fundamental, paramount value - the value of life - is inverted in a culture that values death more than life. There is nothing left to talk about.
I really wanted to quote the whole thing. But he's got other stuff posted on this subject you should read, so go there for the rest, now.
