The Difference Between Us and Them

In a word: Mercy.

I got a link to this from a few people already, so it must be making the rounds. From ArmyTimes.com

After tracking down the now-wounded sniper with a team from B Company, 4th Battalion, 1st Iraqi Army Brigade, Tschiderer secured the terrorist with a pair of handcuffs and gave medical aid to the terrorist who’d tried to kill him just minutes before.

Does anyone think that would have happened the other way around? Not a chance. Tschiderer's headless corpse have been found in a ditch two days later.

There's a link at the bottom of the article to the video of Tschiderer being hit (taken by the terrorists). It's amazing how he springs back up almost instantaneously after being hit in the chest.