As President Obama prepares for a speech in which he will describe his
strategy for countering the group commonly known as ISIS, officials in
his administration are preparing public expectations by saying the effort against ISIS may take three years
to “complete.” Maybe the preparation is intended to dampen anticipation
of rapid results, but it probably also is designed to cushion any
sticker-shock reaction from people who will hear in the speech an effort
that is larger and longer than they may have had in mind. Three years
may sound like a lot, but consider that this week marks the 13th
anniversary of the terrorist attack that stimulated a
priority-monopolizing, invasion-facilitating, civil-liberties-revising
“war on terror” which, although that latter term isn't used as routinely
as it once was, never has received a certificate of completion.
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