. >> johann hari on the first and last days of the war on drugs -- from the government's targeting ofillie holiday to new efforts to decriminalize all drugs. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the islamic state has released a video showing a captured jordanian fighter pilot being burned alive inside a cage. first lieutenant moa al-kasasbeh was captured in december when his f-16 crashed in northern syria during an airstrike as part of the u.s.-led campaign against the islamic state. speaking before the video was confirmed, obama said it would only increase u.s. efforts against the islamic state. >> i do not know the details of the confirmation, but should this video in fact be authentic it is one more indication of the viciousness and barbarity of this organization, and it, i think, will redouble the vigilance and determination on the part of a global coalition to make sure that they are degraded, and ultimately defeated. >> jordan had hoped to free the pilot by exchanging a female prisoner held for an att