Attention "Progressives": Extraordinary Renditions, Prisoner Abuse, Summary Executions Continue

Except this is the real thing , and the Taliban has murdered another of its Korean evangelist hostages.

Michelle asks whether anyone cares, and I'm wondering too. On the other hand, I don't know what is to be done to save these people if we don't know where the Taliban is keeping them. Doesn't seem to be much point in just making YouTube videos urging the Taliban to let them go.

About all that's left to us is prayer:

REMEMBER thy servants, Shim Sung-min and Bae Hyung-kyu, O Lord, according to the favour which thou bearest unto thy people, and grant that, increasing in knowledge and love of thee, they may go from strength to strength, in the life of perfect service, in thy heavenly kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, ever, one God, world without end. Amen.

And for missionaries around the world:

ALMIGHTY God, whose compassions fail not, and whose loving-kindness reacheth unto the world’s end; We give thee humble thanks for opening heathen lands to the light of thy truth; for making paths in the deep waters and highways in the desert; and for planting thy Church in all the earth. Grant, we beseech thee, unto us thy servants, that with lively faith we may labour abundantly to make known to all men thy blessed gift of eternal life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Taliban must know they have just brought destruction upon themselves and strengthened the flagging resolve of the Western world with this futile atrocity.

At least I hope they have. I'm ready to chase the Taliban far into Waziristan and exterminate their whole ghastly cult, and I don't particularly care whether Mr. Musharraf likes it or not.