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So beheading is back in the news after a few centuries' absence. How practical. How efficient. How very
Ikea. It must be re-assuring for some people to know that the old ways really were the best. You simply don't need nuclear submarine fleets and stealth technology when you own a big fucking knife. It's not often that we're inspired by medieval murder techniques at Shark Infested Waters, but anyone who cannot understand the undiluted impact of public decapitation needs to be hot-wired into the real world. There is no remote control anymore. You don't like it? Tough. Switch channels? Tough. You going to be all grown up now and negotiate around a table in the desert? Tough. We've got a foreign aid worker in an orange jumpsuit and you're all going to watch. We'll make it real easy for y'all and even send the fucking TV schedule. Got it? Good.
Both the East and West are obsessed with propaganda. The West has Rupert Murdoch, ISIL has the al-Hayat Media Center and both sides would probably agree that the battle for hearts & minds is not panning out entirely as expected. The West can send bombs and drones and achieve nothing at all. Al-Hayat can send just one video over the internet and cause instant mayhem. The West has yet to understand that in this day and age there is nothing particularly shocking or awesome about watching a conventional war on TV. We've seen it all before. It wasn't very good. Especially the ending.
