RIP Mr. Foley.

You did your job well in a very dangerous place and lost your life,.... Your murderers will be caught and punished. The world can not falter in capturing and punishing the perpetrator of this horrific act/crime
/against humanity/his family. I salute a true hero, rest, rest in peace.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/19/medieval-cruelty-in-modern-times-isis-beheads-american-journalist.htmle

Updated On: 8/20/14 at 05:14 AM

I actually saw the whole video. It disturbs me to no end the senseless violence and brutality that people do in the name of religion! They are also cowards who do these deeds with their faces obscured.

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SNAFU - I too watched the video. Part of me wants to not believe what I saw. It is absolutely incomprehensible how a human can do that to another human. I am trying to comfort myself that Mr Foley's pain did not last long although from the amount that they showed (then cut away) then the final scene (not saying because of respect for those who do not want the details) it is hard to believe it was an easy task physically. I pray that in the early part of the process (for lack of a better word) that he was no longer there.

How can these animal think that anyone can have compassion for them after this brutality???

Carlos...I understand your position and those who choose not to watch it.

I wanted to see what they made him read to the camera. I wanted to hear his voice and see his face. I felt a certain amount of comfort seeing the courage Mr Foley had in his final moments. He was a very brave man. I doubt I would have been able to compose myself as stoically as he did.

There almost a necessity for many to watch just so that there is credibility that the cowards doing these unthinkable acts do not deserve to win the war they think they deserve to win.

I have seen worse horror movies than what was actually shown in the video. The act began and quickly faded out (at least in the video I saw) and by fading out it left more to the imagination which of course was probably worse than witnessing the entire brutal act.

I hope that my watching this can in some strange way deliver to Mr Foley, wherever he is now, that my heart is with him and he was not alone in that vast wilderness in his final moments.

Well, I don't think it's necessary to watch a beheading for any reason. I couldn't even watch the movie Hostel and that wasn't real.

my two cents.

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I'm not saying turn away at all. I'm saying that the knowledge of the beheading is enough to sicken us, and I pray that we will do away with these subhumans but I fear that we won't. It doesn't look that way so far.

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I am speechless.... Just speechless. This is the most sickening thing I have witnessed and I hope Foley will be at peace forever.

While I understand people's need to bear witness to Foley's last moments of life, I personally still refuse to watch it. For one thing, I don't trust myself. I don't trust that my intentions for watching the video are pure because I believe that deep down, I would be doing so more out of a sense of morbid curiosity. And I just refuse to allow this man's horrific last moments to be turned into a grotesque curiosity for me. It's my experience that a lot of people who watch these videos (and similar "gore" videos) do so more for the shock value or out of bravado. (I'm not insinuating anyone here is doing that!)

FWIW, James Foley's family has requested that people NOT watch the video:

Twitter Suspending Anyone Who Posts Images of the Deceased Foley

Updated On: 8/20/14 at 11:05 PM

Those monsters known as ISIS have come right out of the pits of hell.

My thoughts and prayers are being sent to Mr. Foley's family. I can't imagine the horror and the pain.

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President Obama has failed on many fronts, but on droning he has not. Drone strikes are a perfectly appropriate and acceptable way of dealing with these terrorists who, according to leaked intelligence reports, pose a much higher threat to Americans than Al-Qaeda ever did (think about that for a moment...).

Who gives a flying f*ck about moral high ground? Exterminate these rats and cockroaches immediately. Those trying to defend these soulless monsters are traitors. When the King of Saudia Arabia, a Muslim known to support state terrorism, comes out in support of America's drone attacks, you know it's time to begin the ISIS demolition without hesitation.

Updated On: 8/21/14 at 08:36 AM

"Those trying to defend these soulless monsters are traitors."

Thus sayeth the "centrist." Hahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa.

Those folks at the Stanford International Human Rights & Conflict Resolution Clinic are such TRAITORS!!!

Nobody's defending ISIS. But then again, the abscessory has spent MONTHS demonstrating the inability to comprehend the written word.

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Updated On: 8/21/14 at 10:17 AM

The Abscessory (real name Miss Ayn Marple) says the difference is YOU ARE A TRAITOR FOR ASKING THE QUESTION.

Hope that helps.

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I don't think anyone here will argue that Mr. Foley and his loved ones deserve anything less than our sympathy and moral indignation. But if we're going to be horrified by barbaric behavior, let's don't forget to look at our own.

The argument that 9/11 justifies any response, however lethal, seems to have no end. 3,000 of our people were killed 13 years ago in a terrible tragedy. In retaliation, we've killed well over 100,000 (mostly Iraqis) and dislocated as many as 2 million people in the Near East. Exactly how many do we get to kill before the score is settled?