VinRouge has a point. We all know that in pure military terms we and our coalition partners are more than capable of wiping ISIS off the map in a matter of days.
However, politics has a habit of getting in the way, and as before we tiptoe around dropping a bomb here, a missile there, scared witless that we might do something that could be seen to be even slightly wrong. But at the same time we use the sort of rhetoric that would suggest that the whole military might of the coalition is to be unleashed against ISIS.
The result? Well, we're back in Iraq again, aren't we?