Tit for tat

One gets the distinct feeling, and certainly the implication is there, that the rape and murder of an Iraqi woman (along with three relatives) by members of the 502nd Infantry Regiment, one of whom has just been charged with the crime, resulted in the subsequent and widely-publicised kidnapping, torture and beheading of two soldiers from the same unit. That might be a stretch, I don't know. But if it was a reprisal attack, the increasingly grim situation in Iraq only appears worse, with tit-for-tat hits between insurgents and US forces. We need to get the hell outta there.