If the sadists of ISIS are seeking — with
their mass executions, child rapes,
immolations, and beheadings of Christians —
to stampede us into a new war in the Middle
East, they are succeeding.
Repeatedly snapping the
blood-red cape of terrorist atrocities in
our faces has the Yankee bull snorting,
pawing the ground, ready to charge again.
"Nearly three-quarters of
Republicans now favor sending ground troops
into combat against the Islamic State," says
a CBS News poll. The poll was cited in a New
York Times story about how the voice of the
hawk is ascendant again in the GOP.
In April or May 2015, said
a Pentagon briefer last week, the Iraqi Army
will march north to recapture Mosul from the
Islamic State.
On to Mosul! On to Raqqa!
Yet, who, exactly, will be
taking Mosul?