All my hope and prayers

I often discuss the trying times we are living within and the fact the overall strange and twilight zone feelings that tend to wash over me at times. The present disturbing headlines of the ambush which took place in Iraq and the three soldiers taken captive by al-Qaeda is a classic example of what I have been saying.

The fact that three American soldiers were taken captive by a terrorist's organization with a history of torture and beheading has been haunting me since then. This is not the typical wartime POW, scenario in which are military was taken prisoner, tortured, kept in less than human-living conditions and if still alive at wars end, released as if nothing ever happened.

This is not even a standing army, nothing that would even come close to that statement. This is simply a mass of individuals disenchanted with their own way of life that has been taught that all of their problems have been brought about by the wicked west.

They do not subscribe to the policies regarding the treatment of prisoners of war, they do not even care about them.

These animals do not even refer to our military as such, but as "crusaders" in a direct and intentional reference to the medieval crusades. They gleefully exclaim that they have broken the shield of invincibility of the American soldier and then throw in that they were taken captive in retaliation for some crime or another that was to have been committed upon their people.

This disgusts me to no end and should have the same effect on every American in this country. Unfortunately, it does not and this too leads to total disgust within me.

My thoughts, prayers and hope is with the soldiers and their families.