Jordan has always been the weakest country in the area and thus timid. It’s nice to see that they can do things with an appropriate level of thoroughness when they are not overmatched.
King Abdullah is thoroughly p*ssed off with the ISIS thugs. If there is any person in all of Islam who may be named as having an ethical view of the world, he would be the leading contender. And his claim to the line of DIRECT descent from the Prophet Mohammed Ali (through the daughter Fatima) gives the Hashemite royal line a special cachet within Islam.