What I can add is an opinion on the correct response to such an atrocity.
It would be normal, I believe, to decide that this was the cursor for more direct involvement in Syria. The so called "boots on the ground" scenario.
In my humble opinion this is what the extremists in Syria/Iraq want. They have been good, extremely good, at exploiting cracks in a society for their own ends.
The west must stand firm for it's ideals of freedom and democracy for all. To fall into these murderers trap of taking them on would only serve as a recruiting call. The evidence of Afghanistan was that the Taliban drew in people who felt Islam was under attack from the West.
I am sure DAISH are hoping along the same lines.
We in the west must embrace Muslims within our communities as a integral part of our society. We have to ask ourselves what is it we do to these communities that turns some of them into mass murderers.
This may sound like appeasement to some but what we are up against is not a country or a distinct peoples. Like say, in WWII. We are engaged against a philosophy. We have to work as a society to ensure we prove that our philosophy of life, love and culture is not only preferable but essential.
We have to show beyond reasonable doubt that all faiths and cultures have a place within a greater freedom and democracy.
We mustn't fall into the old ways of our imperial pasts that led us on military adventures to foreign lands.
Part of my theory is that we must welcome Syrian refugees. We must show compassion as it appears to be conspicuous by it's absence in Syria at the moment.
By welcoming and absorbing these hard pressed peoples we can show the world that we have the way and the future.
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