The reversal of this soft-power, politics-not-troops mentality is an essential step forward......Nevertheless, there is a dismaying hesitancy in the military's and the White House's deliberations on this conflict. Although the president wants a new approach, the Pentagon, the State Department and even the National Security Council appear wedded to the past. The contradiction between what the president says and what his government does has never been greater. We need to move rapidly: The enemy is digging in and the drift to full-scale civil war is gaining speed....

Mr. Gerecht is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
That says much about where this comes from. Most interesting is the use of "drift toward full-scale civil war"....nations/countries do not "drift" toward civil war; they may erupt but they do not drift.

Gerecht is essentially calling for a massive crackdown; given the numbers of troops avaliable and other factors, this is a waste of ink.

Tom