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Zero to nowhere: Obama’s Syria-Iraq ‘policy’ leaves reality behind

My kingdom for a strategy.

Syria is burning. (Image: AFP via BBC)

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Author theoptimisticconservativePosted on October 26, 2014Categories Coalition operations, Diplomacy, General military, Great power geopolitics, Political commentary, Strategy, Strike operations, Terrorism, US Foreign policy, WarTags Baghdad, Battle of Baghdad, Damascus, Damascus interior corridor, Euphrates corridor, Geopolitics, International security, Iraq, Iraqi Kurds, ISIS jihadist group, ISIS jihadist strategy, Islamism, Jordan, kesselschlacht strategy to destroy ISIS, Kobani, Kurds, Libya, Middle East, Military, National defense, Obama has no strategy to defeat ISIS, R2P, Responsibility to Protect, Samantha Power, Statesmanship, Strategy, Susan Rice, Syria, Syrian Kurds, Terrorism, Turkey

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