Too late.
“Terror is theater,” New York Times columnist Roger Cohen wrote on Monday. “Burning skyscrapers, severed heads: The terrorist takes movie images of unbearable lightness and gives them weight enough to embed themselves in the psyche.” Over the weekend, ISIS, the newest terror kid on the block, posted another one of its beheading videos to the Internet, marking the third hostage to die in the organization’s effort to send chills down the spine of the Western World.
And, once again, it worked.
It works because the MSM is in the business to make MONEY. If it bleeds, it leads, Walter Cronkite is the source of that little statement by the way.
If you want to stop the theater then you do it by NOT giving them a stage. It’s as simple as that.
While terrorism is real, govts’ alerting the population to “potential” terror threats whether color-coded or what not is simply to cover govts’ backside as to “we warned you as much” should a terrorist attack happen or not be prevented. Other than that what can the people do when they’re given such a broad & vague “terror alert”?!? It only leads to more unhealthy speculation.
I’m wondering what buffoon is writing this and I see it’s Bob Barr.
It’s sad. He had his day. Was great for FR once.
Something went wrong with him, or perhaps it was always there.
You can only defeat ISIS by defeating Islam.
I refuse to give audience to these beheading videos.
There is only one way to truly defeat ISIS. That would be for Putin to deliver 100 new tanks to Assad. Everything else ends with an Islamic State.