Radical Islamic jihadists recently beheaded a 12-year-old boy after he was captured.

The State Department’s response?

They need more proof this happened in order to stop the funding these terrorists.

From Conservative Tribune:

What State Department spokesman Mark C. Toner said after videos began circulating on social media showing President Barack Obama’s Syrian rebel friends beheading a boy suspected of being a pro-government fighter perfectly demonstrated this administration’s pure cowardice.

“If, as you said, if we can prove that this was indeed what happened and this group was involved in it, I think it would certainly give us pause,” he said during a State Department briefing this Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

When reporters then asked Toner whether this meant the Syrian rebels whom the Obama administration supports would face “some kind of consequence,” he again resorted to his feeble rhetoric about a “pause.”

“I can’t — again, I can’t say what that consequence will be, but it will certainly give us, as I said, serious pause and we’ll look at, frankly, any affiliation or cooperation with this group we may have going forward, if these allegations are proven true,” he said.

According to Al Jazeera, the boy murdered by the rebels was Abdullah Issa, a poor, impoverished and ill child who was anything but a fighter.

Why, Why Why does the Obama administration feel the need to protect these Islamic terrorists?