Simon: She was killed by a group of cowardly inhuman scum. How else could they be able to kill someone in such a brutal manner who dedicated her life to helping so many. Such actions cannot be blamed on the Americans or their policies as you inferred. It is the action of cowards and there is no justification possible for it.
It was a vicious act, no doubt. But who started this war?! Who bears the ultimate responsibility for the chain of events that they knowingly decided to set in motion ... that they were even eager to set in motion?
These cowards want Geneva Accord protections when captured by the Americans yet refuse to follow even basic humane treatment of their own captured or kidnapped prisoners. If there is such a thing as civility on the battlefield, murdering/execution of innocents on video for any reason or cause flies in the face of anything remotely human or humane/civil.
This line of reasoning works both ways. I suppose that their actions are excused because of "the cowardly scum actions of American soldiers committing previous attrocities" for instance? Abiding by the geneva convention should be something that we want to do because we are civilised and responsible whether the other side abides by it or not. The sad fact is that America abandoned any pretense of abiding it a long time ago so I think your outrage rings a little hollow.
Nothing excuses anything but it can explain the reasons for it.
eg. The Soviet oppresion and attrocities in Chechneya do not excuse the inhumanity in Beslan but it does help to explain it.
If all we can do is use one action to justify our own side then lowering our standards then how different are we to them?