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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.