You weren't boring me. Sorry to see you bow out. And we don't differ on the issue as much as you think. If I could snap my fingers today and magically convert all of Islam to anything else, Zen Buddhism, atheism, anything. I would do it.
But reality bites and we have to live with it and part of that reality is our President has set our troops in the field --- in an action most of us here agree with and believe is for our overall good --- with allies who happen to be of the Religion of Hatred persuasion and the State Dept has to deal with that and the Defense dept.
I don't know. I wouldn't be surprised if Defense wasn't the one who ASKED State to say what it said today. If they did, they wouldn't say so publicly.