Pussyfooting

The New York Times reports U.S. warplanes in the Syria/Iraq theater of operations are being prevented from bombing ISIS targets because of a fear of killing civilians (who like as not support ISIS). Quite often ISIS columns proceed down the road with impunity.

This is ridiculous. I've seen the destroyed Serbian military headquarters in downtown Belgrade. The U.S. bombed it while leaving surrounding buildings intact. We have the technology but lack the will.

See the quoted recent email comments of an A-10 pilot, anonymous to avoid punishment from his superiors:

We have not taken the fight to these guys. We haven’t targeted their centers of gravity in Raqqa. All the roads between Syria and Iraq are still intact with trucks flowing freely.

In most cases, unless a general officer can look at a video picture from a U.A.V., (drone) over a satellite link, I cannot get authority to engage. It’s not uncommon to wait several hours overhead a suspected target for someone to make a decision to engage or not.

This is no way to fight a war.