How horrifying it must be for family members to see their loved ones being captured by the enemy and paraded on TV. Do they take perhaps take a bit of comfort in knowing that their husbands or sons are at least alive? Will images of torture and grimy prison cells haunt them every night?

The ironic thing is that only Man can subject his fellow beings to despicable acts of inhumanity. Animals don't torture their prey. Man, with their knowledge of what constitutes pain, inflicts their most-feared terrors on their enemies. Animals only kill for food or self-defence. It is Man who who inflicts pain for pleasure. And when they do so, we say that they behave like animals.