My mother always said:
“If you fight a piecemeal war,
your enemy is goona make a meal out of you, and
you`re goona come out of it in pieces.”
Possibly they should issue some suicide drugs to the pilots, so if they do go down, they can choose whether or not they want to become fodder for more ISIS propaganda, to say nothing of the suffering they will face.
“.... hamstrung by the prevailing denial and refusal to examine its guiding ideology.”
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Just say it in plain English:
There ain’t no leadership anywhere in the fight against ISIS.