Obama's Strategy: Kill ISIS Before They Kill Us -- Aaron David Miller and Jason Brodsky
(CNN) -- Think that President Barack Obama has done a back flip on Iraq and Syria, gotten that old-time religion and is now a convert to the "let's kill them wherever we find them" approach of his predecessors? Think again, or at least lay down until the feeling passes.
Indeed, stripped to its essence, what the President has outlined isn't some grand strategy to transform the region or even to "ultimately destroy" ISIS; it's a much narrower transactional one to protect the homeland. And here's why:
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- September 11, 2014
What Obama Didn’t Say -- Philip Gourevitch, New Yorker
Why ISIS Keeps Running Circles Around Us, Just Like Al Qaeda Did Before 9/11 -- Christopher Dickey, Daily Beast
Can we defeat the Islamic State? -- Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post
For Assad, U.S. plan will weaken one foe but bolster others -- Tom Perry and Alexander Dziadosz, Reuters
As Obama seeks allies against Islamic State, Lebanon is already in the fight -- Nicholas Blanford, CSM
Obama's New War on ISIS May Be Illegal -- Eli Lake, Daily Beast
Legal Scholars Doubt President’s Authority to Wage War Against ISIL -- Caroline Lee Smith, Washington Free Beacon
Obama's Realization: There's No Way Out of the Middle East -- Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
Special Report: Scots warm to the power of Yes -- Alistair Smout, Reuters
Newsweek Europe Exclusive: Russian Soldiers Reveal the Truth Behind Putin's Secret War -- Anna Nemtsova, Newsweek
Catalans Want Independence Too -- Helene Zuber, Spiegel Online
US considered offering asylum to Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet -- Jonathan Franklin, The Guardian
Assessing the Terrorist Threat 13 Years after 9/11: Old Guard Al Qaeda, Team ISIS & the Upstarts -- Clint Watts, War On the Rocks
Rudy Giuliani on His 9/11 Bluff, the Museum Controversy and the Rise of ISIS -- Josh Robin, Daily Beast
The Resilient City: New York After 9/11 -- John Avlon, Daily Beast
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