The other night, President Obama pledged to root out the "cancer" of ISIS. This apparently will be accomplished by more air strikes and US special forces advisers. The Kurds and the Iraqi Army (the same guys who fled before ISIS in June and August) will do the heavy lifting on the ground.
The irony of this speech on the eve of the anniversary of 9/11 was lost on no one. We're back in the fight again.
The other irony is that Obama has just signed on publicly to Bush's open-ended and endless Global War against Terrorism. He has scaled way back on the drone strikes when faced with public criticism, but he had been quietly practicing Bush's policy. Now he's back in.
But rooting out the ISIS cancer will be really hard to do. Check out this map from the Institute for the Study of War: ISIS map They are embedded with all the Sunni communities in Iraq. This cancer is going to take massive amounts of chemo and radiation, and may end up killing the patient anyway.
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