Thoughts on the video:
- I am inconclusive as to whether if Foley's speech before his execution was prepared by ISIS fighters who made him say it. It also looks like Foley might be reading off of a paper or screen. The speech sounds awfully like something ISIS would say (blaming US government, etc), but he appears to choke up several times suggesting that it may be his own words. I am not sure about it.
- It appears as if this was direct retaliation for the US airstrikes on Iraq, as the ISIS fighter who executed Foley claimed.
- The guy who beheads Foley appears to have both of his legs amputated. He also has a British accent.
Final thought:
“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”
- Steven Weinberg, physicist