ISIS: Fight Them Now, Or Fight Them Later

Published August 15, 2014 2:26pm ET



The tide may have temporarily turned in Iraq, as the administration is saying. But the long view regarding ISIS is somewhere between challenging and bleak. As Greg Jaffe and Greg Miller of the Washington Post report:

Senior U.S. officials describe the threat posed by the Islamic State in chilling terms, but they have mounted a decidedly modest military campaign to check its advance through northern Iraq.

There will be no American combat troops returning to Iraq, the President says.  So whatever is done will be done by the Iraqis and American air power which, so far, are:

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