Assumptions...

make an ass of u and me.

“Given what’s happened to Jim Foley, given the public profile that this ISIS bunch has taken, I think it’s easier for the president, and for that matter for members of Congress, to make the case to the public that the United States really ought to be operating in the skies over Syria against this particular group,” said Frederic Hof, a former Syria adviser in Mr. Obama’s State Department.

As does overstating the dangers posed by this formerly "JV" team to the United States, here at home.  We should takes steps -- or non-steps -- to assure the Islamic State fight for territory remains... over there.