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ISIS War Debates I: Why Is This Our Fight?

The Nation, Jan 14, 2016: This war is already lost. None of the US governing class’ shifting war aims—stabilizing the region, defending human rights, ending terrorism, establishing democracy—can be achieved. There is no future “diplomatic” solution that justifies continuing the…

ISIS War: The Case for Cut-and-Run

  In the Post-Paris debate on what the US should now do in Iraq and Syria, there is one important option missing: leave. Despite some testy rhetoric, most of the President’s critics are urging him to do more of what…