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Tag: ISIS
Wiretap: War or counterterrorism?
Are we at war against ISIS? Or is it, as President Obama put it, a "counterterrorism campaign"?
Wiretap: Hundreds of militias, which to support?
Who are the Syrian rebels that Americans would recruit to fight against ISIS? The New York Times writes that it’s a difficult question to answer.
Littwin: Committed to #winning the war on terror, in the same...
It was sad to watch, but, I guess, inevitable. In delivering a strong and decisive speech on how to deal with the ISIS threat,...
Gardner: Blame Obama, bomb the terrorists
The presidential speech last night on ISIS/ISIL is drawing muted support from Republicans, with Rep. Cory Gardner among the first to weigh in from...
Wiretap: The legacy of war
The president whose goal was to remove America from a "permanent war footing" is putting down his own footprint. It's a legacy issue, David Nakumara writes in the Washington Post.
Wiretap: ISIS jihadists delighted over possible war
Barack Obama is getting dragged back into a war in Iraq and, according to the New York Times, also in Syria. The ISIS jihadists couldn’t be happier.
Wiretap: Neocons and liberal hawks who cried wolf
There's a good reason Americans are hesitant to do much about ISIS, as neocons and liberal hawks have been crying wolf for so long.
Wiretap: Jacksonian hellhound on ISIS trail
Joe Biden said it - pursuing ISIS "to the gates of hell." Peter Beinart writes in the Atlantic that the beheading of two American journalists has transformed American foreign policy.
Wiretap: Fighting and infighting over ISIS in Syria
The Daily Beast explains why Barack Obama’s we-have-no-strategy line means that there is no strategy yet on what to do about ISIS in Syria. The real fighting going on is within the Obama inner circle.
Wiretap: No strategy can work in Syria
Fred Kaplan writes in Slate that although everyone hates ISIS the United States should not bomb ISIS in Syria, not unless there’s a coalition army to support there. The only winner would be Bashar Al Assad.