The shockingly rapid and violent spread of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq is a clear and present danger

US has a chance to stop the Islamic State

by Joseph Lieberman

Source: www.aei.org

It would be wrong to view President Obama's decision to order airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and to give weapons to Kurdish fighters as a continuation of the war in Iraq. It is more accurate to see it as a mission to prevent another war in Afghanistan. We have a chance to stop the Islamic State before it creates a sanctuary in Iraq and Syria that it could use to strike the United States, just as al Qaeda used its sanctuary in Afghanistan to kill thousands of Americans on 9/11. That, to his credit, is what the president has begun to do.

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