The Pendragon's Hall

There's a scene in LOTR III in which invading orcs use catapults to send the severed heads of fallen warriors back into the besieged city of Minas Tirith. The recent butchery of Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl has certainly brought this scene to mind. And why not? The butchers of Al-Qaida are not any higher up on the social scale than orcs. Milton said it first--man is the crown of God's creation and when he falls, he can become "lower than beasts." Look no further than Al-Qaida and Baath Party loyalists. If this murder was truly "justice" or even "vengeance" for the Iraqi prisoner "abuse" then the purported "abuse" should have been reciprocated and "justice" in return for these bloody murders should be for Saddam and a few others to face the same fate. But it will not happen. The United States suffers from a disease called "civilization"--something most of the Arab world has never heard of, except that they know it's a disease. It's time to stop treating Al-Qaida like naughty children and more like the subhuman creatures they have made themselves.