**Posted by Phineas
(Photo source [1])
The savages of the “Islamic State” have sent another message [2] to the United States:
Dressed in an orange jumpsuit against the backdrop of an arid Syrian landscape, [Steven] Sotloff was threatened in that video with death unless the U.S. stopped airstrikes on the group in Iraq.
In the video distributed Tuesday and entitled “A Second Message to America,” Sotloff appears in a similar jumpsuit before he is beheaded by an Islamic State fighter.
As Bryan Preston [3] of PJ Media points out, our leaders have once again been caught unaware [4]. Maybe they’re still trying to figure out a strategy [5] for dealing with medieval lunatics who are butchering Americans. If Obama and his team are having trouble doing that, let me offer a suggestion:
Hunt these swine down and kill every last one of them.
UPDATE: At the end of the video of Sotloff’s beheading, ISIS shows another captive, Briton David Cawthorne Haines [6]. The implication is clear: unless the US stops its airstrikes, Mr. Haines will be slaughtered like James Foley and Mr. Sotloff.
(Crossposted at Public Secrets [7])