Tarantonight,
I must (albeit) reluctantly, agree with you! We have moved to a much more difficult situation. Whilst I do not have to agree (indeed do not in many cases) with our "elected leaders", they are now faced with a very different foe than has been in evidence before. Da'esh have a different "purpose", target, call it what you will, to those other "**se **les" who went before, in my opinion (and, YES, I did have some experience of some of them !) I am no lover of our current elected "leaders" but, that is what they are! I foresee a long and very amateur political lead, with our Service guys doing the job, as always, to a level that is beyond MP's comprehension!!
Good luck to all!
Bill.