More on those who wish FOX journalists had died

By now you've probably heard about all those right-wing loonies who wish that the captured FOX journalists Centanni and Wiig had been willing to die rather than undergo a phony gunpoint "conversion" to Islam. Atrios links to Greenwald who, as is often the case, nails it:

So someone -- like Centanni or Wiig -- who recites a few words that they don't mean in order to avoid death is a wretched, feminine coward who has no core values and nothing they are willing to die for. But if that's the standard, then people like Steyn and his fellow neoconservative warriors -- who want to place blind faith in the Government in exchange for promises of "protection," vest in the President the most unlimited powers, and fundamentally change how our country functions and the values which define it, all because they think that doing so is necessary to increase their chances of living -- are drowning in a self-protective cowardice that dwarfs by many magnitudes that which they mock in others.

[emphasis mine.] I really think all the people in the "they should have died" camp are completely wacky. Their smug "bravery" is ridiculous, cowardly, and pompous. I'm so tired of hearing this class of people who are so willing to throw everything America stands for away in a counterproductive effort to thwart a threat that kills a reltively small number of people every year. Why don't we re-direct some of this hysteria into flu pandemic preparations or into countering global warming?