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Obama tinkers with failed Islamic State strategy

One of the most frustrating aspects of President Obama’s strategy to degrade and destroy the Islamic State in Iraq is that he seems to grasp why it isn’t working. Yet he refuses to take the obvious steps needed to fix it (and I don’t mean sending thousands of American ground troops). Instead, he only tinkers with […]

Trudy Rubin writes in the Seattle Times:

One of the most frustrating aspects of President Obama’s strategy to degrade and destroy the Islamic State in Iraq is that he seems to grasp why it isn’t working. Yet he refuses to take the obvious steps needed to fix it (and I don’t mean sending thousands of American ground troops). Instead, he only tinkers with a strategy that has failed. U.S. officials rightly want the Iraqis to do the fighting against the Islamic State, helped by U.S. trainers and coalition airstrikes.