Say what you want about ISIS, they can spread fear pretty effectively.

[rgbecker]

The United States correctional department could learn a lesson from ISIS. If the point of the death penalty is to deter crime, the courts should order release of videos of the executions all across the country like ISIS apparently has no trouble posting on the web.

This link brings you to an array of ISIS videos of executions. I found it when googling for information on the estimated size of the group. That seems to range from 30,000 to 200,000 but there seems to be nothing definitive.

http://heavy.com/tag/isis/

[underpants]

1. Our MSM is helping too n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

4. Media in this country

stopped doing their stated purpose decades ago. They are now a well oiled propaganda machine.

[LiberalArkie]

2. Daesh's U.S. branch (The Republican Party) is pretty effective also.

[Iggo]

3. Just Say No to Death Porn.

[Oneironaut]

5. Our country spreads fear.

ISIS had to do next to nothing. The MSM is doing all of the work.

[GreatGazoo]

6. "Of course the people don't want war....

But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials

ISIS is groups of mercenaries backed by Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. The war is about 2 competing natural gas pipelines:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/08/syria-ultimate-pipelineistan-war/