An Eye for an Eye, and the Whole World Goes Blind

When our allies do this, is this any cause for rejoicing? From The New York Times > International > Asia Pacific > Afghans Behead 4 Taliban:

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, June 22 (Reuters) ?4 Afghan soldiers have beheaded four Taliban fighters in retaliation for the Taliban's beheading of an Afghan soldier and an Afghan interpreter for American-led forces, a government commander said Tuesday.

The soldier and the interpreter were beheaded after becoming separated from a patrol of Afghan and American-led foreign troops in the Arghandab district of the southern province of Zabul on Monday night, Namatullah Tokhi, commander of the government's 27th Division in the province, said in an interview.

He said government troops later captured and killed four Taliban guerrillas in the same way.

'They cut off their heads with a knife,' he said of the Taliban action, 'so when our forces arrested four Taliban, we cut off their heads too.'