They obviously think beheadings arent now shocking enough, they need to escalate the torture....absolutely disgusting. I cant understand how punishing an individual so badly for the (perceived) behaviour of nations/other religions forwards your cause. Isis can only be doing it to provoke a huge scale war in the hope that some nations, no doubt those supporting sharia law and broadly in line with isis ideologies, end up railing against their western allies.

Lessons have to be learned at some point though...the usa in particular through what seems to be its continual search for global hegemony for the last 70 years or so, seems to have a history of picking some dubious allies come enemies, training/arming groups who end up using the skills against them....the mudjahideen who were trained and financed to combat the russian threat, al qaeda who were trained and financed to fight in the balkans war (and in return tacitly permitted by the cia to continue their heroin trade into europe) and now isis who were trained and financed to fight the battle in Syria fairly recently. Thats without even touching on numerous other uprisings organised in Latin America (granted most of those dont have batshit religious ideolgies driving them towards guerilla warfare and are more often eventually dealt with by crippling sanctions if they dont play ball).

Why continually get into bed with these animals? The age old arguement, its was for the greater good to stop the spread of **add any religion/nation/ideology** or to rescue a nation from an evil dictator is just simply bullshit...smoke and mirrors. You just breed mistrust in anybody with half a brain and consistently create argueably greater threats to western societies. It does help the arms trade though I suppose....