Body counts are never a good a yardstick for measuring progress in a war of ideas. That’s why the Pentagon freaked out Thursday when Stuart Jones, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, told the Al Arabiya News Channel that America and its allies “have now killed more than 6,000 ISIS fighters in Syria and Iraq.” The first counter-fire came, within hours, from Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
The U.s. Needs A New Yardstick For A New Kind Of War
Mark Thompson, Time: World
Sun, 01/25/2015 - 4:06pm
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