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Why We Shouldn’t Be Scared of ISIS: Threat Inflation and Our Next Dumb War

Here We Go Again

Before we commit to a third Iraq War, can we at least get real about what we’re actually up against?

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More than a dozen years after the horrors of 9/11, we find ourselves in a Groundhog Day-style nightmare. We wake up yet again to find ourselves terrified of a radical Islamist group that shows no compunction about barbarically killing American civilians and gets off on issuing apocalyptic warnings about a...

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