AN ALTERNATIVE CULTURAL NARRATIVE – AT 7:24 A.M. ET:  Rarely has brutality been on display as blatantly as it is with the Islamic State.  From London's Daily Mail: 

Islamic State have released a new decapitation video, threatening America for the second time and urging the Kurds to break from their alliance with the West against the caliphate.

Just hours after Islamic State released shocking footage of the mass execution of 300 Syrian national army soldiers in the Syrian desert, Islamic State have issued a second warning to the United States.

The grainy video, accompanied by the hashtag '2ndAmessagetoAmerica', shows the vicious beheading of a Kurdish soldier, who was part of a group of 15 fighters likely to have been captured by Islamic State during the fighting in Iraq.

The group's first warning ten days ago was entitled 'A Message to America' and showed the decapitation of American journalist James Foley.

In the latest video, the captors first issue a warning they will continue to decapitate prisoners should America continue to support the Kurds in their fight against the Islamic State.
They then behead one of the captives on a sandy roadside in Iraq, where the Great Mosque of Mosul can be seen in the background.

Kurdish forces have been in fierce fighting with Islamic State since June and their militias have been beginning to receive considerable amounts of armaments from Western powers including the USA and UK.

It is the latest front line in a brutal power struggle taking place through Syria and Iraq as the Islamic State attempts to extend its influence and impose Sharia law across the region.

COMMENT:  And what does our leader, Field Marshal of the United States, Including the South Side of Chicago, Barack Obama, have to say about this?  He told us yesterday that we don't have a plan yet for defeating the Islamic State.  Earlier in the week we learned that the United States has been studying this movement for four years.  Well, you know, that's very little time to develop a strategic plan that would satisfy the needs of a godlike president.  True, we won World War II in three years, eight months, but we were so crude about it.  The field marshal has much higher standards, including his brilliant concept of leading from behind. 

August 29, 2014