Jay Nordlinger wonders, if we are not "at war" in Syria what we will say to family of a downed pilot.

Yesterday, I was reading about our air strikes. And I thought, "What if we lose a pilot? What if a pilot is killed? Do we go to his mother, or wife, and say, 'Sorry, ma'am: We were doing a little degrading, and he died. We were trying a little kinetic action, and, you know - he bought the farm'?"

If what we are doing is not war, it is certainly war-like.