Here’s Everything Wrong With the White House’s War on the Islamic State

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6. Honesty means recognizing that events do not happen in a vacuum.

It's somewhat 'fashionable' to claim we're doing all this for oil but I think that's too simplistic an explanation, especially as we're exporting oil out the wazoo.

The Islamic world is going through its own painful Reformation Period. Just like the European one, it includes polar opposite results: the Arab Spring and ISIS.

Bombs are not the answer to every problem, of course, but I don't think you can assume that the last 4 administrations all just happen to feel the same towards Islamic countries. And neither do I think some ultra-secret military cabal is forcing everyone to do this.

The Islamic world is joining the 21st century but it's a very slow and messy transformation.
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