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Iraq
October 7, 2014
Jack Goldsmith
If Obama Wants Congress' Approval to Attack ISIS, He'll Have to Ask—or Screw Up Badly
September 30, 2014
Jessica Schulberg
The War Against the Islamic State Is About to Hit $1 Billion
September 24, 2014
Kenneth M. Pollack
We Need to Begin Nation-Building in Syria Right Now
If we want to avoid the mistakes we made in Iraq
September 16, 2014
Jessica Schulberg
Obama's Legal Basis for Bombing Iraq Keeps Shifting
The 2002 AUMF is politically disastrous for the Obama administration
September 12, 2014
John B. Judis
You Call This a Strategy for Defeating IS?
Why I'm skeptical of Obama's plan
September 12, 2014
Jessica Schulberg
Obama's Going to Arm the Syrian Rebels? He's Already Been Doing It Covertly for Over a Year
September 11, 2014
Graeme Wood
The Three Types of People Who Fight for ISIS
A breakdown of the most evil group on the planet
September 10, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
Obama Against ISIS: The End of Halfheartedness?
September 1, 2014
Graeme Wood
What ISIS's Leader Really Wants
The longer he lives, the more powerful he becomes
August 28, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
Obama Was Wrong. The Era of Humanitarian Intervention Is Not Over.
August 23, 2014
Douglas A. Ollivant
The Barbaric Terrorists of the Islamic State Are a Threat to the U.S. Homeland
August 22, 2014
Mehdi Hasan
This Is What Wannabe Jihadists Order on Amazon Before Leaving for Syria
August 22, 2014
John Bew
History's Lesson for the Middle East: When Superpowers Leave, Stability Doesn't Follow
August 15, 2014
James Dawson
Why Britain Created Monarchies in the Middle East
August 14, 2014
Jenna Krajeski
Kurdistan Is Considered the "Success Story" of the Iraq War. Not So Fast.
August 12, 2014
Cameron Hudson
Is This the Obama Doctrine?
The president has set a very high bar for preventing genocide
August 11, 2014
Andrew J. Tabler
ISIL Could Become the Voice of Sunnis If We Don't Find a Way to Stop It Soon
August 11, 2014
Yishai Schwartz
We Are Doing the Right Thing
The U.S. airstrikes in Iraq are about saving lives, not oil fields
August 8, 2014
Elliot Ackerman
The Islamic State's Strategy Was Years in the Making
August 8, 2014
Yishai Schwartz
Obama Is Right to Bomb Islamic Militants, But His Reasons Are Wrong

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