“America must pummel ISIS”

An interesting statement of a hawkish stance on responding to the so-called “Islamic State”:

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/unleashed-america-must-pummel-isis-12457

My attention was caught by the authors’ distinction, and how they made it, between the military vulnerability of the “Islamic State” and the relatively elusive character of al-Qa‘ida.

It parallels quite closely the distinction that I often make (in print and, as recently as last night, in presentations) between the successful guerrilla tactics of the Gadianton Robbers in the Book of Mormon and the military disaster of their “premature regularization.”

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