YOU DON'T FUCKING GET IT... If optics aren't taken into consideration, you'll be cutting off a couple of heads and about a dozen others will rise to take their place. This is about putting an end to this shit for long enough to consider it PERMANENT. You won't get that until the public WAKES THE FUCK UP. That's why OPTICS MATTER. The public needs to see the optics to realize that they've been played so that they will finally get their shit together and ACT to ensure this NEVER happens again in our lifetime or our children's lifetimes.
Neither the President, nor the military nor God himself run on YOUR timeline, and THIS is the exact reason why.
I'm sick of hearing about, 'optics'. How many children are being tortured at this very moment? The 'optics' are never going to be perfect. By putting patriotism and Christianity first the alliance is guilty also, of using the children. This has to be stopped. NOW.