Artful Dodger

> No one said anything about executions.

>> The only thing the extremist muslims need is a bullet to the head. Kill them all is possible. they are all evil and all deserve immediate death. No battlefield caputres and this trial nonsense.

>> The US needs to execute by fireing squad any US citizens that leak classified docs.

>> I'd have had a CIA operative take him out months ago. And a few of his colleagues would taste the bullet as well.

I hate to hammer the same nail twice. It sounds to me that if a combatant is captured alive, the only way there are NO battlefield captures is if they are summarily executed. The other two comments speak for themselves.

What perhaps does it for me is that you claim to be a good Christian, yet you have no problem saying that it is OK to kill another human being for political reasons or to protect state secrets. You say I am a "dishonest" left winger. Is it worse than being a dishonest Christian? Or did Jesus preach killing others, even one's enemies? I won't make generalizations about the American religious right, but I do hope your comments do not reflect their beliefs.

Well, we as human beings are full of contradictions. All I can say is that politics and religion should NEVER mix (even if the Tea Party faithful disagree). It is in those instances that the best of us throw our most precious beliefs to the wind in exchange for political views. The reason why we claim to be better than extremists is precisely because we do not do summary executions, or have a take-no-prisoners attitude, or have a kill-all-traitors attitude. We should leave those to fascists, terrorists and extremists.