Found this interesting tidbit while surfing

[Taem]

This type of insensitive racist persecution might have acceptable in that day, but I hope we agree that it would be unacceptable in the present day. I think this would be as disrespectful and barbaric as performing and posting a beheading on the internet. There are no short-cuts to peace and justice.

No, actually I agree with you. I found the article shocking because I never heard of it before... and I never even thought (and never would have thought) of something like that. Nonetheless, its effectiveness on extremists "back in the day" leads to much speculation as to how to reach terrorists because, as you so eloquently put it, there are no short-cuts to [peace]. How do you bring peace to a place where only an Iron-Fist-type tyrant (i.e. Saddam Hussein) gets through to the people? Definitely not with Democracy!

Justice however is another matter in my mind. Jack had his own style of justice and it worked for him, and while his style of justice might not work in today’s world with today’s standards, there is a lot to be said [regarding Iraq] about cause and effect. Did the terrorists of today really get what they deserved? Was justice served? If our invasion of Iraq has subsequently spawned "many" more anti-American groups in the process of stopping terrorism, then the entire invasion was done incorrectly obviously. I think there is more to be gleamed from the history of good 'o Jack than merely focusing on the negative aspects of his actions by today’s standards. What that is, I don’t know, but I feel there is more there.