Whatever Happened to Surrender?

By Carlin Romano. One imagines it’s a fantasy among high-up American military officials. The self-anointed caliph of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — or whoever’s running Beheading Inc. these days — drives up slowly in a pickup truck to a long table set out in the Syrian desert, the usual fivesome of gunmen milling about in the back. More...