WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING – AT 1:10 P.M. ET:  At the end of World War II in Europe, General Eisenhower ordered American troops to be marched through the Nazi death camps.  He said that our soldiers might not always understand what they'd been fighting for, but at least they could understand what they'd been fighting against. 

Today we must constantly be reminded of what we're fighting against.  It is a fanatical ideology.  Here is an example.  From Reuters:

BEIRUT An Islamic State militant executed his mother in public in the Syrian city of Raqqa because she had encouraged him to leave the group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Friday.

The woman in her 40s had warned her son that a U.S.-backed alliance would wipe out Islamic State and had encouraged him to leave the city with her.

She was detained after he informed the group of her comments, according to the British-based Observatory, which monitors the war through a network of sources on the ground.

Citing local sources, the Observatory said the 20-year-old man executed his mother on Wednesday near the post office building where she worked in front of hundreds of people in Raqqa, a main base of operations for the group in Syria.

The Islamic State group, which controls wide areas of Syria and Iraq, has executed hundreds of people it has accused of working with its enemies or breaching of its ultra-conservative interpretation of Islam.

COMMENT:  Mothers' lives matter.

January 10, 2016