The desire to be just like the terrorists

This is what raw, blind, unreasoning terror does to someone: it robs them of all moral sense.

Kit Lange (nee Jarrell), who has proven herself a bigot and hatemonger, has posted Maupin’s Captors Are in U.S. Custody, in which she states of those who have been arrested for the murder of US soldier Matt Maupin…

They’re lucky we don’t treat prisoners the way they treated Matt… although I think we should.

Let’s be very clear on what Kit is saying here: she wants the US and its soldiers to behave just like those who killed Matt Maupin. Kit would no doubt label those people “terrorists”. Kit wants us to act just like the terrorists. In Kit’s case, and that of too many like her, the terrorists have already won — they have successfully terrorized her into giving up all pretense at being any better than the terrorists themselves.

If we give up the moral high ground and act like the terrorists, why are we any different than the terrorists? Why should we prevail?