Another good question...

...this time from Jeanne at Body & Soul, who asks this

Why is it on the front page of the paper when our horrible enemies do something like this, but not when our horrible friends do it?

about this

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, June 22 (Reuters) — 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.

I can think of several answers, none of them adequate, but there's a time for snark and a time for, well, I just can't think of an appropriate response to barbarism at this point.