Defeat or contain

In the seven months since the start of US bombing raids against ISIS the US and allies have carried out 16,000 airstrikes against ISIS. In the first five weeks of the Gulf War the US carried out 100,000 airstrikes. It appears the US policy is not to degrade and destroy as The President stated but rather to contain. I think what we are doing aptly fits the name assigned to this mission,” Operation Inherent Resolve”. Jordan’s King Abdulla was visiting the White House when one of his citizens was burned alive by ISIS and he cut short his visit and returned home. The next day he order the hanging of two convicted ISIS terrorist and today he launched massive air strikes against ISIS. A few months ago a US citizen was decapitated and President left the golf course to make a statement as to how terrible this was and less than ten minutes later was back on the course. On a news program last week President Obama said the US was doing all that it could to fight ISIS and yesterday after the murder of the Jordanian pilot he said we would redouble our efforts against ISIS.