Evidently, the U.S. media does not grasp this concept 
    because if they did so many would not have reported the 
    heinous, barbaric murders of Pfc. Kristian Menchaca and 
    Pfc. Thomas Lowell Tucker in the context of the status of 
    the war effort in Iraq. Instead they would have focused on
    the desperation those in the jihadist movement must be 
    experiencing to have to sink to such depths of depravity 
    and brutality in order to draw attention to their cause, 
    which is experiencing major setbacks every day.