re: NYT Editorial: how to deal with ISIS

There are still lots of innocent people in Raqqa. Watch some of the Vice videos and you'll see there is definitely a part of that culture that doesn't want them there.

One thing that I've thought about here is how quickly they've taken over parts of Iraq and Syria. This isn't just a bunch of rag tag thugs out on a bullying walkabout. There is some serious military thinking behind what they've been doing. I know that the Iraqi and Syrian militaries aren't the Army Rangers, but they shouldn't have folded that quickly.