“‘Reality is setting in:’ why some ISIS fighters are packing up and going home”

This is a potentially very important phenomenon, and our policy makers and strategists should be studying it:

http://www.vox.com/2015/9/21/9365953/isis-defections

I couldn’t help but think, at one point in the article, of the purported pirate announcement “The beatings will continue until morale improves.”

Thanks to Jabra Ghneim for calling this to my attention.

Posted from Nauvoo, Illinois