American journalist executed by ISIS

A dictatorship country?   Oh geez, Dotty...     You're being overly sensitive about what I said...  You've taken a bunch of personal swipes.  You're being sill now.

Me not watching it has NOTHING to do with burying my head in the sand. Burying my head in the sand would be not watching the news, etc. I don't need to physically see this video to know what happened nor does anyone else. And the family is asking people not to. I would hope others would respect their loved ones memory but I guess not.

I respectfully disagree. I think the truth deserves to be seen no matter how horrific it is. Only then can we honestly know what we are dealing with. Of course this is just my opinion.

Debbie in MD.

I will not watch the video as an act of defiance. It should be removed from the internet. Don't give ISIS what they want. One still photo tells the story. The intelligence services should analyze the video.

ISIS needs to be rooted out and destroyed. Obama better recognize that he underestimated the JV team and get to work. After watching Hagel and Dempsey today they were clear this group is well organized, they have money. It is estimated they have at least 500 British jihadists and an unknown number of Americans who have passports and can travel under the radar.

honestly I think they are already here.

Our constitution and freedom of speech give them footholds to launch their recruitment programs, change our laws to come closer and closer to Sharia law.  It's slow and insiduous, but it is too late to close the door.  

I am looking for links from reliable sources but despite that I hear about these events from friends who live in Miami and Dearborn, MI, Arab friends, some Christian and some Muslim, who came to America to escape religious confines or persecution and who are very worried about what is happening here in the USA, there is very little media coverage.  Are we just putting our heads in the sand hoping it will go away?  Right now when they rally their cries are "Kill the Jews".  But they won't stop there.  They've said so.

I will not watch that video for about a thousand reasons, but the [HASH]1 is because his family has asked us not to. That is reason enough for me. Would YOU want your child's murdered view by thousands, or possibly millions, for the sake of "enlightenment"? Really? All the while knowing that his murders feel positively joyful that you're viewing the video, no matter the reason for doing so?

How many posters complain about the attention-whorish, sensationalized media we see on a daily basis? That video is the epitome of that. I don't need a play-by-play to understand the horrors that footage would show.

He doesn't need us to *see* the truth. We *know* the truth. We just need to get off our asses and do something about it. You don't need to see a women get raped to know that sexual assault is a problem, do you?

It is important that these videos be preserved, just as the photos and films of the concentration camps need to be preserved, but I don't have any reason to be reviewing them.

It should be assumed that any family automatically requests that people do not watch videos like this. I hate that this family's requests are being included in reasons not to watch, because that comes way too close to implying that without that pressure from family, it's OK.

No. If the family had not made a statement that the public not watch those videos, I would not assume it be tacit approval to watch it. But the fact remains that the family has consistently asked the public not to do so, and so it will remain the first reason for me to not ever consider it. Respect for their wishes far, far, FAR outweighs any benefit that one might glean from viewing that video (if, in the rare case, I ever found a reason to view it in the first place). 

mark your calendars for today - I agree with both scrappower and KS on this! I don't need to see it to know the horror of it.

My most favorite thing I have read this week. 

However, I *think* I understand what is meant when it is said that we need to watch. Now, personally, it is not something I need to do. But I think what is meant is that in the watching, Mr. Foley isn't alone. That we then become a witness to the horror and can testify to it, we become part of the history-not in a titillating way, but in the way of a personal witness. That if he has to endure the pain and terror, that perhaps in the watching, we can share it as the least we can do *for* him. There are those who can probably articulate it better than I.

We all process events like this differently. For some, the only way to make it real is to see. We sit in our very safe homes, in our mostly safe neighborhoods where this kind of thing just doesn't happen. 

With respect Joy, the belief that they are coming in because they have passports to come in is a little naive. What makes you think that they're not already in the US, not by border entry, but born and bred in the US. 
It's not just the English and French that have joined their ranks. Intelligence confirms that there are Americans there too and a number of citizens from other countries. 
What do you suggest that President Obama should do in addition to what the US is doing in Iraq at the present time?
Bombing the hell out of them in Iraq isn't going to solve the long term problem . We've already tried that with al Qaeda in the past and it hasn't worked.
President Obama and all the leaders of the Western world has an unenviable task on how to deal with this and keep us all safe.It isn't confined to Iraq and Syria. That isn't the goal of IS. We can't ask our leaders "to do something" without acknowledging the difficulty they have in balancing the convenience,liberty and security of everyone else.
They need to find why these individuals are turning against the values of the countries that they've been brought up in. We already know how.......the main one being internet radicalization through the hatred and propaganda that they distribute at an alarming rate.We need to halt this avenue somehow.
Viewing this video is not only disrespectful to the wishes of his family but personally I also don't want to give IS the number of" hits" of viewers or shares that would give them any reason to celebrate their barbaric actions.

Here's the link that Barbara has quoted from in the LA Times........someone is bound to ask for it!



L A TIMES