If I'm in prison for forgery and some group of criminals are axe murderers do I want to be killed just because they kill others to try and free me? That's a miscarriage of justice. I don't know the specifics of their list, but I would not want to engage in retaliatory killing.

Besides, these folks are already in prison. They are no longer a major threat. It's the folks who did this that deserve justice.

My sense of infinite justice wants the perps, not just revenge on the easiest target. Going soft has nothing to do with it. Our victory must be morally sound and the punishment should fit the crime.

When they kill an innocent man just because he is American, they demonstrate their weakness and impotence. We have the power to go after the specific perpetrators and we will. That's a far more powerful statement to the world then encouraging convenient retaliatory slaughter.

It may take time, as it did with Saddam, but eventually all these folks will be brought to justice or justice will be brought to them.