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The Real Power of ISIS

Mind Games

The West has failed utterly to understand the appeal of the ISIS narrative, much less to develop effective counternarratives.

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As U.S. troops and their allies stage commando raids to rescue prisoners slated for slaughter by the so-called Islamic State, and the Russians mount bombing raids to bolster the dictatorship of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, it’s easy amid the kinetics to lose sight of a central and potentially determining fact...

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