The response to Foley’s beheading should have been a MOAB dropped on an ISIS-held town.

He knew without a trace of hope that he was, in fact, going to be beheaded after his statement. He could have screamed F*** ISLAM, and would probably have died quicker…..

He chose instead to humiliate and blame his brother and his country.

The video of Foley’s beheading does indeed illustrate the primitive barbarism of radical islamists, and also (laughably) points up how their love of modern technology manages to co-exist joyfully with their commitment to ancient tribal values….but it does NOT, sadly, immortalize the last few moments of a hero’s life.

“It’s also a signal that the Leftist alliance is allied with Islamic Jihad . . . .”

Agreed. They both have a common enemy: Western Civilization and Culture.

Tangentially related is this post from today over at Maverick Philosopher:

The high school I attended required each student to take two years of Latin. Years later the requirement was dropped. When a fundraiser contacted me for a donation, I said, “You eliminated Latin, why should I give you a donation?” He replied that the removal of Latin made room for Chinese.

What I should have said at that point was something like the following. “While the study of Asian languages and cultures and worlviews [sic] is wonderfully enriching, it must not come at the expense of the appropriation and transmission of our own culture which is Judeo-Christian and Graeco-Roman.”

The link:

http://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/

I have full knowledge of the perversity of our enemy. But there are too many in the West who view the US, and the West in general, as the oppressors in this centuries-long struggle (like our President). Proggie thinking not only gets such believers killed, but it gets you and me killed, too.

Foley sought out these terrorists, identified with them. Crying over him is like crying over tourists who visit Iran or North Korea and end up in jail on trumped up charges. Contrary to lefty thinking, the rest of the world does not have Miranda nor our Bill of Rights. Whatever happened to common f-cking sense? One answer is that it’s being ‘educated’ out of the population.

And maybe Foley was just doing his job; I don’t know Foley’s work. Your “give a shit” meter, while valid for you, is not the issue here. Under any circumstances, and like Daniel Pearl’s execution, Foley’s execution is a signal as to the perversity of our enemy if we choose to heed it.

My give-a-shit meter’s on the fritz. Again.

Daisy cutters all around anyone?

He’ spent the last five-years traveling with the fanatics — making him, literally, a fellow traveler.

At all times he’s been a spokesman for the Islamist ‘project’ or campaign.

So, it would be as likely as not, that he wrote his own jisei. (A death haiku, the Samurai tradition upon the rite of seppuku.)

The ire against the American military springs from his own soul. It’s infused throughout his agitprop videos.

Foley was so hard core that he was able to dance out of captivity in Libya. The Islamists intervened for him.

It’s not beyond reason that he arranged that kidnapping so as to kick some $$$ to his buddies — and to mount the international press stage. In sum: a personal publicity stunt.

It’s a plot device that’s been recycled within living memory by Hollywood.

“The Chase” (1994)

Excess Baggage” (1997)

Whether he was at true risk (Libya) seems problematic — since he promptly went straight into the sandbox.

And this acorn didn’t fall far from momma’s lap.

Foley was living the script his mother handed him at the cradle.

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Such American/ Canadian/ Western activism is high on Putin’s phobia stack.

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Our anarchist President… the Community Dis-organizer in Chief… he hatches pod-agitators like they’re German cockroaches.

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At least Foley got his 15 seconds of fame.

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If this is what ISIS does to its most sympathetic media connections, expect very tight editing from here on out.

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