Friday, September 4, 2015

ISIS: America's Failed Response (Opinion)


By Matthew Balan, Sep 02, 2015 CNN

(CNN)It's been a year since Steven Sotloff was brutally murdered. The images, which have become all too commonplace, shocked the American public -- and consequently, the American President -- into responding to the horror that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has wrought in the Middle East. But countless decapitations, and hundreds of thousands of less infamous (but no less vile) predations later, ISIS continues to flourish.

The United States has no strategy against the terrorist group, and the tactics being pursued by the Obama administration are failing.

In early July, the President took to the airwaves to announce that things were going, well, OK, in the battle against ISIS. "As with any military effort, there will be periods of progress," he began hopefully, "but there are also going to be some setbacks -- as we've seen with ISIL's gains in Ramadi in Iraq and central and southern Syria."

 
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