Politics

Please—Let’s Not Destroy ISIS

MISSION CREEP

Obama’s mission is hard enough without him stating a clearly unachievable goal. Why do presidents feel they have to sound like John Wayne?

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Americans should support this mission against ISIS. One may well choose to do so warily, because, as I wrote in the wake of President Obama’s speech last week, it depends on a lot of uncontrollable variables (the Saudis behaving like good guys) against which odds are rather long.

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