Jordan attacks Islamic State
Did Islamic State guess wrong? It hoped to intimidate Jordan when it released video of it burning to death a captured pilot. Instead, Jordan launched airstrikes on IS positions.
Jordan reacted to Islamic State burning a captured pilot alive with national outrage and by attacking IS targets. Did IS guess wrong? Two Japanese hostages were also killed -- and Japan is now trying to flex its own military muscles, to the dismay of its neighbours.
Also in this podcast: European leaders try to make peace in Ukraine -- but are they wasting their time? the man who might have been president of France in the dock alongside Dodo the Pimp; and as Harper Lee goes back into print -- the perils of writing a second novel.
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