Quite apart from whether we do or don’t have a good strategy for combatting ISIS, we are definitely in one of those bewildering interludes where cable news is chock full of completely nonsensical ‘expert’ claims which actually make no sense at all. A few moments ago, in an interview on MSNBC, an expert said that (close to verbatim, but paraphrased) ‘Clearly our strategy isn’t working. Because if it was, ISIS would not have been able to release a propaganda video every day for the last eight days.”
I know that the cable nets need to keep the conversation going 24/7 no matter what. But it’s genuinely disturbing if this kind of nonsense talk ends up playing a role in the formulation of policy.
