War Against ISIS: US Strategy in Tatters as Militants March On
10.12.2014 at 10:16am
War Against ISIS: US Strategy in Tatters as Militants March On by Patrick Cockburn, The Independent
America's plans to fight Islamic State are in ruins as the militant group's fighters come close to capturing Kobani and have inflicted a heavy defeat on the Iraqi army west of Baghdad.
The US-led air attacks launched against Islamic State (also known as Isis) on 8 August in Iraq and 23 September in Syria have not worked. President Obama's plan to "degrade and destroy" Islamic State has not even begun to achieve success. In both Syria and Iraq, Isis is expanding its control rather than contracting…
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