Oh dear God . . . from Lawrence Kaplan at The National Review:
Even by the degraded standards of everyday life in Baghdad, this report from CNN’s Nic Robertson comes as a shock:
One international official told me of reports among his staff that a 15-year-old girl had been beheaded and a dog’s head sewn on her body in its place; and of a young child who had had his hands drilled and bolted together before being killed.
My inbox will soon be stuffed with chickenhawk e-mail. Their talking points will boil down to this: “Well, if Iraqis can sew a dog’s head on a decapitated 15-year-old girl, why can’t our troops do a little rapin’ & pillagin’? It just ain’t fair!”
I repeat my earlier comments:
Have you had enough?
We dug the pit. Then we turned the snakes loose. And now we’re in there with ’em. Can we still climb out, or did we dig too deep?