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A New Strategy Proposal Needed to Defeat ISIL in Iraq and Syria

In one typical example of the advice offered to President Obama’s administration in regard to the deteriorating situation in Iraq and Syria, one of the “experts” in Washington recently said, “[the president’s] strategy has to start with this: who’s the real threat in that part of the world now? And the answer is, in Syria, it’s the jihadis. And in Iraq, it’s the jihadis. So we’ve got to look for allies to confront that threat. That’s the most serious thing. And in Syria, it means cooperating in some fashion with the guys we don’t like and eventually want to get rid of, namely President Bashar al-Assad, and requires working as well with Iran and Russia, who also oppose the jihadis in Syria.