President Barack Obama spoke Wednesday on the execution of American journalist James Foley at the hands of Islamic State militants, warning the group that they have “no place in the 21st century.”
“Today the entire world is appalled by the brutal murder of Jim Foley by the terrorist group ISIL,” Obama said in a statement from Martha’s Vineyard, where he is on vacation. “James was taken from us in an act of violence that shocks the conscience of the entire world.”
On Tuesday, the group formerly known as ISIS released a video of militants beheading Foley, claiming it was in retribution for U.S. airstrikes in Iraq. The Federal Bureau of Investigations said Wednesday they believe the video to be authentic.
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This situation, in its entirety, will become much, much worse before it even starts to get any better.
And I don’t see it getting any better any time soon.
Partially, though, I am encouraged by and enthusiastically support the Kurdish peshmerga. They, alone, cannot totally defeat the barbarians of ISIS, but they may be able to defend Kurdistan from them.
I pray to ‘The God of Us All’ that they do so…