Defeating Isis Likely To Take Years, Warn Military Analysts -- Sam Jones in London and Erika Solomon in Sayida, Financial Times
The brutal murder of the American journalist James Foley on Tuesday has gruesomely raised the stakes in the international effort to battle the spread of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis).
The beheading has been a turning point for Isis, marking the first definite shift in its attention away from regional fighting and towards hurting the West and its citizens. It has also come as a visceral reminder for a hitherto-guarded Washington and its allies of what the violent jihadi group represents and the threat it poses.
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My Comment: Here is a sobering statistic .... Islamic State 'has 50,000 fighters in Syria' (Al Jazeera)
Update: Max Boot has an idea on how to defeat the Islamic State .... Time to Annihilate ISIS; Here’s How (Max Boot, Commentary)
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