Brutal Truths: Retreat in Ramadi should trigger a review of coalition's ISIL strategy

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????? I miss where he's coming from in this article and this caution at the end.

But the Obama administration is led by liberal interventionists of the highest order, including Susan Rice and Samantha Powers. That, coupled with twenty-first century morality, a liberal order based on human rights and an upcoming election campaign season in which every failure will be scrutinized, is leading the administration to set unreliable red lines and unachievable short-term goals. Also added to the situation is the dilemma of working side by side with noted adversaries including Bashar al-Assad and Iran even though they share a greater common enemy in the form of Islamic State, thereby forgetting an important historical lesson learned when the U.S. and the West allied with the Soviet Union to defeat Nazism.