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Tough Choices -- Facing Genocide in the Levant

By Bruce Levine on Thu, 08/28/2014 - 7:34pm |

There has been more debate among dagbloggers discussing ISIS, Syria, Iraq -- the Middle East -- than there has been in the Congress over the past couple of weeks. It is election season and folks are back home raising money and kissing babies.

The president is on the job still but today, with commendable candor, stated that the United States did not yet have a strategy for dealing with ISIS. Commendable yes, but not entirely reassuring when you hear it from the commander in chief. That is not the point of this piece.

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