Tag: Syria
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On the Road: Detangling ISIS (Updated)
An important review, by an unidentified author, in this week’s New York Review of Books, argues that ISIS’s resurgence cannot be explained by much more than the availability, suddenly, of “a territory available to attract and house” it’s motivated members. That ISIS exists because it can exist is a tautology the author admits, but their…
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Resisting Resistance: Why Syria isn’t Rwanda…. Or Iraq.
Either way, the distinction in approach should prod a reader towards the ultimate question: On what grounds should the international community (or even The United States) risk the lives of their own for others?
Adam McCauley 