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ISIS’s War Games
Murtaza Hussain introduces the jihadists’ latest propaganda innovation, which looks to court fans of the Grand Theft Auto video game series: A new video purportedly released by supporters of the group...
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Thirteen Years Of Strategery
Micah Zenko calls out Obama’s strategy against ISIS as another example of “political leaders presenting totally unrealistic and implausible end states”, which has been a hallmark of US...
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The Collapse Of Arab Civilization?
That’s how Hisham Melhem characterizes the decades-long series of crises that led to state failure in the Arab heartland and the rise of ISIS: Arab civilization, such as we knew it, is all but gone....
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An Actual War On Women, Ctd
Ariel Ahram goes deep in exploring ISIS’s use of sexual violence, arguing that it represents “as much an undertaking in state-making as in war-making”: The power to control or manipulate sexual and...
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A Hundred Thousand Displaced
Took a little over a year for Turkey to absorb the first 100K refugees from Syria. Now it’s absorbed 100K more in about 48 hours. — Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) September 21, 2014 The Guardian...
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Bill O’Reilly’s Dumb Plan To Defeat ISIS
Oy vey: [O'Reilly] knows advocating for American troops to take up the fight themselves is extremely unpopular. O’Reilly, problem solver that he is, has a solution: “elite fighters who would be well...
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Better Reasons To Drop Bombs In Syria
Douthat identifies a few: To the extent that these strikes have a limited military objective that either connects directly to the Iraqi front (by denying the Islamic State a secure rear) or targets...
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Is Obama Pulling A Bush?
Tomasky insists no: The first and most important difference, plainly and simply: Obama didn’t lie us into this war. It’s worth emphasizing this point, I think, during this week when Obama is at the...
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A Terrorist Brand War
Vera Mironova worries that’s what we have on our hands: The only way for Al-Qaeda to get back to the top of the list of terrorist organizations would be to outbid ISIS on its own field (excessive...
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Dissents Of The Day I
A reader quotes from the Lincoln quote I quoted: This our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man...
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Dissents Of The Day II
But first, a reader “couldn’t resist making a few alterations to ‘Bill O’Reilly’s Dumb Plan to Defeat ISIS’”: But many readers think I’m the one being dumb by comparing Obama to Bush: Andrew, you...
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Dissents Of The Day III
The fisking from readers over my Bush-Obama comparison continues: “But we are going to war despite the fact that ISIS is no more a direct threat to the United States than Saddam was – arguably much...
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An Actual War On Women, Ctd
The victims of ISIS are often raped, as we’ve detailed. But Kerry Crawford, Amelia Hoover Green, and Sarah Parkinson take issue with much of the reporting on these rapes: Press reports and punditry...
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An Anti-Jihadist Dilemma
#UNSC just adopted resolution 2178, the UNSC's most significant action vs global terror since res. 1373 weeks after 9/11. #ForeignTerrorists — Samantha Power (@AmbassadorPower) September 24, 2014...
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We War-Loving Americans
Aaron Blake highlights a new poll showing rising public support for Obama’s ISIS strategy: The newest WaPo-ABC poll shows 50 percent approve of Obama’s handling of the Islamic State, as compared to 44...
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Roger Cohen Sees Hitler In The Desert
Well, we all see mirages, I guess. But it says something about the hysteria about the latest incarnation of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq that we’re suddenly comparing them to Nazis and to non-humans....
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Whom Exactly Are We Bombing In Syria?
#Syria | Tomorrow’s @mortenmorland cartoon: “Hands up if you’re one of the good guys!” http://t.co/cQO217XrZj pic.twitter.com/lh5EDTeDVw — The Times of London (@thetimes) June 14, 2013 Last week, a US...
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Obama’s War Budget
Jessica Schulberg reads a new report that attempts to tally the cost of the ISIS war so far: Due to the vaguely defined scope of the conflict—President Barack Obama has vowed not to deploy U.S. combat...
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Whom Exactly Are We Bombing In Syria? Ctd
David Kenner has more on our Syrian allies, who for some reason aren’t all that grateful for the bombs we’re dropping on their country: Foreign Policy interviewed six FSA commanders from [Deir Ezzor]...
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Turkey’s Stake In The ISIS War
As expected, Turkey’s parliament today authorized the government to take military action against jihadists in both Syria and Iraq, but Ankara has yet to say what, if anything, that action will be....
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