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Subject: The National Interest - We don’t want to be involved in Iraq, apparently, except when we do
CJH    8/9/2014 5:08:47 PM

Do our actions so far pass the sanity test? (Or maybe it no longer matters.)

"We Can’t Have it Both Ways In Iraq"

We Can’t Have it Both Ways In Iraq

"If the scope of the mission is simply to protect American personnel along with those that are trapped on Mount Sinjar, then air strikes might be sufficient. But what next? If our involvement in Iraq is tied to a larger goal of restoring stability, it would be difficult to argue that we can bomb ISIS into submission. Even if we could, little would stop them from retreating to Syria and regrouping, least of all the United States."

 
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