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Democrats and ISIS
When the Israeli army invaded Gaza and bombed it into the stone age, I lost a lot of respect for most Democrats (and an Independent) I had admired, and most of them are following the Republican hawks down that same rabbit hole in Iraq and Syria. Everything is so dire and so immediate - Syria is the axis of evil, so they must be obliterated right now! ISIS, who we armed and trained, must be destroyed. Invade now!
I think as poorly of ISIS and what it stands for as anyone else on this forum (though I wonder if our government is any better - it kills innocent people through by drones), and ISIS is a lot of things, but it is not stupid. Beheading the journalist and publishing the video just might be having the effect they've been looking for.