The Deadly Collateral Damage from ISIS
3 December 2015
Enthusiasts
for US or NATO intervention to destroy ISIS are lining up—especially
among those who have never shrunk from any US military intervention in
the Middle East. Some even invoke a call for initiating a “World War
IV.”
While
there is every reason for deep skepticism towards yet another (failing)
exercise in US imperial interventionism, a powerful case nonetheless
exists for an exception here—as to why, in the ISIS case today, a truly
broad international coalition should undertake the destruction of the
territorial, administrative, military and social structure of the ISIS
“state” in Syria and Iraq. Non-interventionism by the West in the Middle
East, normally a sound principle, cannot be taken in every case as an
invariable principle of foreign policy.
Why
make the exception here? Given the choreographed brutality of ISIS
policies it is very hard indeed not to vigorously oppose ISIS...
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