The West’s enemies are getting ever bolder, ever more savage with their provocations. They realize that at worst they’ll be chided with silly hash tag campaigns on Twitter
Whether the You Tube beheading of American journalist James Foley by ISIS terrorists was a brilliant stroke of propaganda or a tactical blunder sure to backfire, is really quite irrelevant. Of much greater relevance is the fact that ISIS is a construct of American government policy that has left a huge vacuum in the balance of power around the world and specifically the Middle East.