Ed. lives!

Ed. Note lives!

... and he's wondering just what the hell they're thinking up in Beslan, North Ossetia, up around Chechnya. Really, now ... do the people who did this think that it won over support for their cause? The militants left hundreds dead. Hundreds more were injured, some are dying. Many are children.

Quoth MSNBC: "the gym had also been rigged with explosives packed in plastic bottles strung up around the room on a cord and stuffed with metal objects."

And: "A sobbing young girl who escaped the school told NTV that a suicide bomber blew herself up in the gym where children were kept captive."

No, the murderers did not intend to win support by their compelling logic or the appeal of their humanistic philosophies. Their goal is to bully the world.

Ed. doesn't care about the nationality of the killers, nor of their religious persuasion. But he notes that according to MSNBC, "a number of the dead militants were Arab mercenaries."

It was said that some of the militant commandos were taken into custody.

Ed. so disagrees with that decision. He believes there should be no prisoners in cases such as Beslan, North Ossetia because the line has been crossed and the world must now say: "You WILL NOT declare war on our children any more! If you try, you will be summarily executed in the square and will truly learn the meaning of 'merciless'."

Enough is enough.